In the end, you can't be Black

 When the three "guilty" verdicts were announced in Minneapolis, people all across the country cried and sang and reveled in the moment.  Not, however, in Columbus, Ohio, where police had just shot a 15-year-old girl.  She lived in a foster home, indicative of a troubled childhood, and she apparently had a knife; her aunt said she dropped it before being shot several times.  As a small crowd gathered  someone said, "We don't get to celebrate nothing.  In the end, you know what, you can't be Black."

After so much violent death -- killed while jogging/sleeping/walking/eating ice cream at home while Black -- it might well seem so.  Black people can't do anything right, including not riot, according to a certain Georgia Republican:  "DC is completely dead tonight.  People stayed in and were scared to go out because of fear of riots.  BLM is the strongest terrorist threat in our county [sic]."  That's right, although the verdict was flashed around the world by 6pm EDT, Marjorie Taylor Guano knows the wypipo cowered in their homes (even Six-Gun Boebert!) because those people might riot anyway.  (In Guano-speak, a riot is a public gathering of more than three Black people.)  Maybe they did and the media were afraid to cover it.  Anyone heard from Seattle or Portland today?  Probably burned down again.

Against the backdrop of non-violence, the Anglo-Saxons (as they now apparently choose to be called) courageously stood up to reality.  Tucker Carlson:  "The jury...came to a unanimous and unequivocal verdict this afternoon:  'Please don't hurt us.'  After nearly a year of burning and looting and murder by BLM, that was never in doubt."  So Trump was right about "American carnage"!  I sure hope we can persuade him to run again.  I understand Burkman and Wohl have video of white bodies being dumped in canals along with Trump ballots, but the liberal media won't show it.  "When was the last time a sitting president weighed in on a jury decision before it was made?  Never!"   Except for Trump on Manafort and Nixon on Manson -- maybe he meant a Democratic president.  Biden did wait until the jury was sequestered and deliberating.  

And then, as you knew he would, he accused the media of "lynching" Derek Chauvin.  Because we "still cannot say with any specificity how [George Floyd] died."  The Anglo-Saxons love to pull out lynching, slavery and the Holocaust as their all-purpose comparatives.  A cop found guilty by a jury is a lynching.  Abortion is just like the Holocaust.  The Affordable Care Act is worse than slavery.  And as for "we," Tuckie, for at least four days one medical expert after another explained with horrifying specificity how George Floyd died.  You should have listened to them.

Maybe Tuckie got all his information from the official Minneapolis Police Department press release from May 26, 2020:  "Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction."  As Mary McCarthy would say, every word is a lie including "a" and "the."  It might have been the official last word, too, but for Darnella Frazier's video.  It's part of the reason the Justice Department has announced an investigation of Minneapolis police practices.  Merrick Garland has taken up the carpet that Bill Barr and Beauregard Sessions would have swept them under.

And right on schedule the trashing of Ma'Khia Bryant, the teenager killed by police in Columbus, has begun.   She was big (230 pounds) and she had a knife and the police are trained to aim at "body mass" because it's easy to miss a leg or an arm and yes, there's video.  I don't want to look at it right now.  I want to look at another girl.  She's seven, and she says with pride, "My daddy changed the world."  I hope Gianna Floyd is right.