When John Cowell stabbed and murdered Nia Wilson in Oakland, the city did not burn.
When Payton S. Gendron walked into a Buffalo supermarket and executed 10 Black people, Buffalo did not burn.
When Ryan Christopher Palmeter slaughtered three Black people in Jacksonville for the color of their skin, Jacksonville did not burn.
When Dylann Roof sat in a church, prayed with nine innocent Black souls, and then gunned them down in Charleston, Charleston did not burn.
History has shown time and again: Black America has endured atrocity after atrocity, hate crime after hate crime, but so has other races in America including whites.
So stop using the murder of Iryna Zarutsk to stoke racial panic for cheap clicks and pathetic content. The man who killed her is a monster, and he deserves the harshest judgment. Period. His crime does not represent an entire race, no more than Gendron, Roof, Palmeter, or Cowell represent all whites.
I am a Black man. I do not fear white people. Nor should anyone fear Black people. Evil has no monopoly on race; it festers in the small, broken percentage of every community. To use tragedy as fuel for racism is not justice, it is cowardice.
We do not need more fear. We need accountability. We need clarity. And we need to stop letting opportunists twist the suffering of victims into weapons for their own agenda.
I really dislike people sometimes. It doesnโt matter how kind you are to them, they will still always find a way to be disingenuous and talk bad about you.