Injustice and Inconsistency

Somewhere in america quite recently a gang of middle school kids, all black, beat up a hispanic kid, mercilessly. How surprising. How surprising that there is violence all over america, hell, we only have about fifty thousand hours of violence on television every year. 

..and how utterly brave, belonging to a gang, and beating people up. I guess people form many kinds of gangs, intended to inflict all kinds of violence. Humans and their gang behavior, national, or local, and otherwise. Aint humanity grand?

Several of my conserative friends echoed the following theme: "when we will hear outrage from Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Do they only focus on injustice enacted against a certain race?"

This is a fair point. This is a fair question. To an extent.

My conservative friends surely recall that for centuries gangs of caucasians tormented african-american individuals, while heads turned away, and any group of blacks  ganging up on a white person, a very rare event, caused lynchings.

So I guess Al and Jesse figure that, yes, indeed, they ARE too busy to address all violence, all societal ills against all "races", and can be more effective by focusing on one particular brand. In historical context, that's understandable. Specialization, after all, is the hallmark of our modern capitalistic achievement oriented goal driven economy and society.

Let's give Al and Jesse, and everybody, for that matter, enough credit, for being intelligent and humane enough, to deplore all injustice, and not condemn them as hypocritcal or racist merely because they focus on one particular social ill; racism against "blacks". Quotation marks, because the terms "black" and "white" are false. Human skin pigmentation is a continuum.  WE all have a slightly different skin color, different from everyone else.

Al Sharpton andJesse Jackson are not monsters. They don't like it when a gang of blacks, or whites, or greens, or anybody,  beats somebody, anybody, up or down.

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