Mark Cuban’s Plight

Today I ran across Brian Cuban’s blog post, called “My Brother Is Not Martha Stewart” and it brought about the question in my mind of “Who is Mark Cuban?”

Mark Cuban is a man who seemingly in good condition, apparently in good health, intelligent, ambitious, successful and rich. I hate Mark Cuban, even though I never heard of the man before May of 2008, at least I should hate him — shouldn’t I? Isn’t that the “American Way” to despise and put those down who comes from beginnings not unlike our own — yet who attained greater success and wealth than we have? Isn’t that the way people are supposed to be? Maybe, but it’s a way of being that I have disagreed with for over 30 years and I am not about to change now. I am getting far too old for such nonsense… either that or I am simply not old enough to embrace senility as an excuse for illogical and unreasonable behavior.

In case anyone missed my point, it’s simple… “I am not going to try Mark in the “Court of Public Opinion” before the facts are known and the evidence is shown in a ‘Court of Law’ or other proper setting.” I refuse to make the judgment of his innocence or guilt based upon half-information, rumors and perhaps even the petty jealousy of people. We, as a collective group known as “The Human Race” have done that far too often in the past. People will read or hear things ‘in the media’ and think they know all about the situation, or have enough information to make an informed judgment at any rate. They will then make judgments against those who only stand accused of some crime or heinous act without the proper facts and evidence to make a well-informed judgment. I realize doing such things are easy to do and considered as ‘being human”, but enough is enough already - one would think that in all this time we would learn.

It’s sort of a scary idea to think that anyone of us could be accused of wrong doing and have the news blasted through out the media. I don’t think any one of us would like it a great deal if we knew we were innocent of an allegation and the media, along with tens of thousands of people, would cast us as the Villain without due process of the law. Mark shouldn’t be held to a different set of standards than we hold for ourselves just because he worked hard and succeeded.