Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d bet a brand-new nickel the guy who drove his pickup into the
Christmas Parade was not protesting the Rittenhouse verdict by mowing
down White people.\u00a0 I doubt he follows civic events closely enough to
realize the parade was happening.\u00a0 He drove down that street running
over people like an entitled ass who isn’t required to follow any of the
rules of civilized behavior because . . . he’s not.\u00a0 As a Black man in
America, he’s a member of The New Nobility, a class above the law, not
subject to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nJunior Level, of course.\u00a0 This particular nogoodnik isn’t a jet setter
flying to the climate change summit.\u00a0 He won’t be invited to any
birthday parties on Martha’s Vineyard or Hollywood awards events.\u00a0 But
he’s minor nobility just the same.\u00a0 Imagine if 200 years ago, Lord
Brooks had driven his carriage through a group of peasants dancing in
the lane, killing several of them.\u00a0 The commoners would have been
outraged but the Powers That Be would express their hope his horse
hadn’t chipped a hoof while trampling those filthy vermin. That’s why
certain Black men believe they can loot stores, jack cars, rob people,
drive like crazy, shoot from car windows and beat their women.\u00a0 It’s
learned behavior.\u00a0 They’ve learned it’s okay for them to do.\u00a0 You see it
on the highways around the Twin Cities every day.<\/p>But now, suddenly, after a string of wrist-slaps for years of crimes,
Brooks is charged with five counts of intentional murder. How completely
unfair.\u00a0 That’s like giving a puppy a treat every time he poops on the
floor until one day he poops on the rug and you bash his head in.\u00a0 How
was he to know?<\/p>If you’re looking for a greater social commentary in this incident,
that’s the lesson.\u00a0 Stop treating criminals like nobility.<\/p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If you remove consequences from doing something, people will do it. Whether it’s shoplifting or having babies out of wedlock or putting money in investment bubbles. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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