More performance art that intentionally relied on false narratives which too many in the media were too happy to fuel. White supremacy killed Nichols? Only a demagogue or a crazy person would say that, and many in both camps did. The spectacle, as it were, also came with expectations of protests that would get out of hand. John rightly notices that none of the speechifying would have occurred had the victim been white, or Asian/Hispanic/etc for that matter, but there would not have been any question of "protests," either. Why is the default setting these days that black folks will riot when something bad happens? Is this really the expectation we have of this segment of society?
Some things are not about race, hard as it must be for the professional activists who need it to be around race because, otherwise, they'd be out of work. This was about five black men who killed a sixth black man, a death made worse because the five wore police uniforms. Had they all been civilians, none of the camera-seeking principals would have shown up. For a minute, it looked like someone took issue with a particularly heinous black on black crime, but no such luck. They took interest because of the opportunity to politicize what happened. Nothing positive was advanced and nothing of value was gained. None of it was about Nichols, either; it was just one more chance to continue pushing an agenda of division, further stoking hatred, and living up to the activist credo of perpetuating problems rather than working to fix them.
More performance art that intentionally relied on false narratives which too many in the media were too happy to fuel. White supremacy killed Nichols? Only a demagogue or a crazy person would say that, and many in both camps did. The spectacle, as it were, also came with expectations of protests that would get out of hand. John rightly notices that none of the speechifying would have occurred had the victim been white, or Asian/Hispanic/etc for that matter, but there would not have been any question of "protests," either. Why is the default setting these days that black folks will riot when something bad happens? Is this really the expectation we have of this segment of society?
Some things are not about race, hard as it must be for the professional activists who need it to be around race because, otherwise, they'd be out of work. This was about five black men who killed a sixth black man, a death made worse because the five wore police uniforms. Had they all been civilians, none of the camera-seeking principals would have shown up. For a minute, it looked like someone took issue with a particularly heinous black on black crime, but no such luck. They took interest because of the opportunity to politicize what happened. Nothing positive was advanced and nothing of value was gained. None of it was about Nichols, either; it was just one more chance to continue pushing an agenda of division, further stoking hatred, and living up to the activist credo of perpetuating problems rather than working to fix them.