This is so devastating. Imagine being a black parent tonight. How do you protect your children? If they go out and stab just one person, they might go to prison. It’s like a black man in America can’t even murder anyone anymore. Unimaginable. Jim Crow all over again. I’m furious.
I continue this week with deep sense of my helplessness overall. I turned to reading Marcus Aurelius:
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it," and "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one".
This is the difference.
A white man restrains a black man acting erratic and aggressive, there's national outrage.
A black man brutally stabs a quite white girl minding her own business, there's no national outrage.
If we didn't have X, would we even know about this?