Although we love to view the world in absolutes, things are seldom black and white. Heroes have skeletons in their closets and assholes secretly donate money to the ASPCA commercials with Sarah McLachlan. Okay, maybe not.
But the point is that the world is a complex place, full of moral ambiguity, double standards and mixed feelings.
So we have taken it upon ourselves to bring back the epic binary of good versus bad, right versus wrong, and virtuous versus evil.
We humbly present you Asshole and Hero of the week.
Via: WTSP
Asshole(s): Ricardo Javid Lugo and Randy Ray Wesson
Between the Bill Cosby rape allegations and gun violence pervading across college campuses, it seems like nothing is sacred anymore — not our memories of a once-beloved comedian, nor our homes away from home. And if Ricardo Lugo and Randy Wesson have anything to say about it, the innocence of childhood isn’t safe either.
As if there wasn’t enough scum infecting planet Earth as is, these two monsters, 17 and 28, respectively, have been accused of running a child pornography ring in Hills Hurst, Texas.
Wesson recruited Lugo via social media when he was just 12, and allegedly began a sexual relationship with him. He has since admitted to having a sexual relationship with more than 100 other children and having more than 42,000 images of child pornography on his computer as well.
The two got the idea to have Lugo recruit young children from a local elementary school in Hills Hurst. They falsified documents that presented Lugo as a sixth grader and enrolled him in Hurst Hills Elementary School, where he then began to recruit children for child porn.
The idea that hundreds of children have been robbed of their innocence by Wesson and there are countless others across the world that have still yet to be discovered is astounding. Child pornography is a disgusting invention made by disturbed individuals.
I hope they’ve warmed the prison cells for them because it’s going to be long sentences for these sick dudes.
Via: NBC News
Hero(es): Londrelle Hall and Ray Mills
As the city of Ferguson and the world awaited the grand jury verdict on the incident between a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer and black teen Mike Brown, two men decided to take justice on the road, literally.
Londrelle Hall and Ray Mills of Atlanta, Georgia, were inspired to go to Ferguson after they heard about the incident, but they didn’t take a typical means of travel. They decided to travel 540 miles on foot, running and walking nearly 35 miles a day.
“Run for Justice” is a campaign the two started to chronicle their journey and raise money not only for Brown’s family, but other families who’ve had to deal with the pain of losing someone to injustice.
“I had a reason to run, not to run from my problems, but to run towards a problem and run for the problems of the world and the problems of America and what’s going on now,” Hall said about his decision to run to Ferguson.
It takes some serious endurance, willpower and strength to make a 540-mile journey on foot. They wanted to show the world that black men are more than what typical stereotypes make them out to be. They wanted to show us that there are more to them than what statistics may say.
We see you, Londrelle and Ray.
Feature photo courtesy of: NBC News
