Never Mind!
He's a WHITE Male - TOTES OK to kill him!
Years ago, I used to wonder at the Tribal Mentality of those who assessed the morality of an action, based on what groups the perp and vics were allied to. I have to confess my automatic thought was: Thank God I live in the USA, where this is not a common practice!
Yeah.
Not anymore.
A lot of the thinking of the Left is based on a skewed idea about what propelled the Civil Rights cause to be picked up by average Americans.
They're under the mistaken idea that White People know, and like, the Black people that live in their area. That would be wrong.
Oh, sure, we do know SOME Black people - often, those who live in our neighborhood or are associated with at work, church, or school.
Much like the White people we know, those who we consider friends generally share our values, lifestyle, and outlook on life. We may share a common religion (I'm a Catholic, and have felt most kindly towards other Catholics, no matter what ethnicity they are. My first doctors in SC were a Columbian immigrant, and, later, when I moved, an African immigrant. Both Catholic, and both excellent). My church is filled with different ethnicities, and our yearly fall International festival is a marvel, with representatives from Europe, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. All are members of our church.
That church, in the period after the fall of Saigon, welcomed Vietnamese refugees to SC. Many families still worship with us. Likewise, the many Spanish-speaking members of our church are a vital part of our parish.
But, not surprisingly, the strongest friendships we've made were co-workers and neighbors. They shared our middle-class values.
That was true of the early Civil Rights leadership - they were clergymen, doctors, nurses, teachers, millworkers, retailworkers - the same range of middle-class job holders, stable families, and responsible citizens as the people they sought to make aware of the need for Civil Rights.
And, it worked. People responded to the publicity surrounding the arrest of Rosa Parks. They made their support of CR known by contacting legislators, talking about the issues to friends and family, and otherwise publicly allying with that cause.
The Left hoped to use similar tactics to generate support to the tipping level. However, the people in their example cases weren't middle class, conventionally appealing, nor those with shared values and lifestyles.
They were - generally - thugs. Layabouts, leeches on family and society. People with drug abuse and mental issues.
Not appealing.
So, the Left sought to whip up support by flat-out lying about their story. Every "kid" on the street in the wee hours was there SOLELY to pick up some chips and a soft drink for their baby sister/brother. Or, to look for something lost. Or find a friend who was inexplicably missing.
NEVER wandering around looking for trouble. NEVER trying to score/deal drugs. NEVER breaking into cars and houses.
Just a college-bound, hard-working (with no job), church-attending (always with Grandma in tow) GOOD kid.
Trust them. They wouldn't lie.
They're shooting themselves in the foot. Their insistence on pushing 'the narrative' about their 'victims' is causing even originally sympathetic White people to reject their agenda.
This will not end well.
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