The hypocrisy is as blatant as it is predictable.
A Black teenager attends an event he has every right to attend, legally possesses a knife, is confronted, and suddenly the chorus becomes: “Why did he have a knife?” “He should have walked away.” “He shouldn’t have defended himself.”
A white teenager travels to a city where he doesn’t live, inserts himself into a volatile protest, carries an AR-15 he was too young to possess, claims he is there to protect property he does not own, shoots two people, and the very same voices instantly declare: “That was self-defense.”
So which is it?
The answer is painfully obvious.
In America, self-defense is not a principle. It is a racial privilege. A privilege extended to white people and denied to Black people.
🚨BREAKING: Maryland Governor Wes Moore pushes back against CNN and calls allegations that he embellished his record for political gain “slanderous," "deeply disrespectful," and "un-American.”
The Army has NEVER contradicted Moore’s account, nor has the 82nd Airborne Division.
“Bill Maher stopped me out in the parking lot.”
Wanda Sykes says thin-skinned Maher was mad about her Golden Globes joke saying he should do “a little less” and confronted her about it outside saying it wasn’t funny.
(Fact-check: many people laughed.)
Sellers: The American public also see the grift that is Donald Trump…
Sands: You wanna talk about Biden and that grift? He was on the take from every major adversary.
Sellers: What? The wealth of Donald Trump has grown exponentially.
Sands: He’s a real businessman.
Sellers: No. He’s a grifter.
Sands: Listen to you! He’s the president!
Hinojosa: Yes and he’s profiting off the presidency. Do you not see that?
Sands: He’s working everyday on behalf of the American people to make their lives better.
Sellers: Has the president enriched himself by making stock trades—
Sands: I have no idea. I haven’t followed that.