A Pawn in Their Game

In 1963, folksinger Bob Dylan wrote a song entitled, Only a Pawn in Their Game, about the man who shot and killed civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Dylan was making the point that even though the man who pulled the trigger was the culprit, he was not the real culprit, he was simply a pawn in a much bigger game. When I was watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trail, the verdict and aftermath, this song, this refrain, “only a pawn in their game” kept coming back to me. Whether Kyle Rittenhouse was guilty or innocent, he was only a pawn in their game. Everyone else involved, Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz were also only pawns in their game. And all the people who are lamenting, crying, protesting the verdict are also pawns in their game. It is the game of the powerful and the politicians who run things, and manipulate situations like this to their political advantage.

No one cares about any of those people involved, they only care about those people to the extent that they can exploit them to further their narrative and promote their political agenda. How do I know this? In Chicago last weekend, 65 miles south of Kenosha, 21 people were shot, 10 were killed, including a 4-year-old child, and most of the victims were black. There are no protests, peaceful or otherwise, about those deaths. That level of violence occurs every weekend in Chicago, very few of the shooters are arrested or tried, and nobody cares because those deaths cannot be used to further a narrative or an agenda. Why would the trial of a white person killing 2 other white people bring out Black Lives Matter protesters, yet the shooting of over a dozen black people in one weekend not attract their attention? All the people in the Rittenhouse case are merely “pawns in their game”.