Bigoted jerks highlight our racial divide
The “ghetto lottery.” That’s what racists call it when a broken, grieving family is awarded a settlement from a municipality after one of its trigger-happy cops rushes to judgment and needlessly ends a life.
It’s a term bigots and buffoons use when a victim’s spouse is financially compensated for a wrongful death — even though no amount of money can ever be equated with justice or accountability.
It’s as if the panicked wife or girlfriend with the terrified child in the backseat has dollar signs in her head when she whips out her smartphone to record what she hopes and prays are not the last moments of her partner’s life.
“He better not be f--king dead,” Rakeyia Scott cried on video after her husband, Keith Scott, 43, was shot and killed in Charlotte, N.C., just last week.
But to hear the misanthropes tell it, Rakeyia Scott is already counting the cash, with designs on a new house and a luxury car with spinning rims.
“Looks as if wife Rakeyia was posturing for the Ghetto Lottery,” a Daily News reader wrote after seeing a story about the shooting. “What do you think?”
I think you’re sick and twisted, and so is anyone else who thinks the violent loss of a loved one is nothing more than a scratchoff ticket.
That includes this reader who pulled his head out of the sand long enough to type this missive.
“What a bunch of phonies this family is with their fake tears,” the reader added after a story about Eric Garner’s family and their continued fight for justice.
Garner, 43, was the Staten Island man who died after a cop applied a banned chokehold during his arrest in 2014. His family received a $5.9 million settlement from the city nearly a year later, but no charges were ever brought against Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who applied the chokehold.
“Eric Garner lived away from home and had many girlfriends,” the reader wrote. “This family already won the ghetto lottery, so please go away.”
The ugly pairing of these two words perfectly illustrates the racial divide that exists in America, and shows the callous disregard that a large number of people (many of them Donald Trump supporters) have for African-American life. Trump couldn’t even address the issue when asked about it during Monday night’s presidential debate. Instead, he focused on two of his favorite words: “law” and “order.”
That is just the kind of shoot first, stop-and-frisk rhetoric that sets the tone for the ghetto lottery goons. Getting shot is hardly a sweepstakes win. Justice denied is no jackpot.