Count Me Out
There’s a story out there that a young black adolescent male was with his teammates under a tent at a track meet when a white adolescent male walks into their tent, something you simply don’t do at track meets. The white kid was asked to leave by everyone there. He refused and began antagonizing the black kid. The black kid eventually gave into the threats and pushed the white kid. The white kid then stabbed the black kid to death.
Wait… Sorry. I got the races backwards. How did you feel reading that? Did that piss you off? Did it make you angrier when the races reversed, or no different?
I had no intention weighing in on this case because it seemed quite simple if looking through human lenses. When looking through colored lenses, you’ll only see the color of your lens. If your wall is white and you put on blue lens glasses, the wall looks blue, but it’s not. It’s still white. Therefore, you’re viewing a false reality.
This is in response to an article written concerning the newest rage bait over lack of accountability, culture of violence, response matching the infraction, and insisting on viewing everything through a racial lens. It just doesn’t have good outcomes in life.
The writer of this piece, among many others like her, simply can’t see the world unless they’re looking through the false reality of a colored lens. It’s disheartening because I thought we were better than this as the human race. But apparently, in criminology, the human race takes a back seat to other races.
This writer is #17 in culture on Substack. Apparently what culture readers are in search for are:
Comparisons between apples and oranges.
For everything to be seen through a colored lens.
Emotionality trumps social adherence to rules of engagement for all mankind.
“You, sir, told us that Austin learned early how to hold a weapon, how to aim, how to take down a living thing, how to be proud of the kill, how to have that moment folded into the mythology of father and son. This tells us something about the values and emotional curriculum being cultivated around him and about what kind of white masculinity was being celebrated.”
First, what is “white masculinity?” Next, he apparently learned a lot about weapons, including when to not have one on your person. Part of learning weapons is learning to be responsible with them. Which Austin apparently learned and Melo did not.
“YOU failed to teach your boy that Black children have boundaries. YOU failed teach humility, restraint, or the sacred fact that another person’s body is not your jurisdiction.”
Are we still talking to Austin here? Because it sounds like something that needs to be said to Melo’s dad. And did she really just say Austin wasn’t taught boundaries… about a man who violated the ultimate boundary?
The Reality of Boys
Boys are born with innate aggression. Aggression by itself is not bad. Boys are also status seekers. They are hierarchical. This is what boys do. Every single day a boy pushes another boy and doesn’t get stabbed to death in return. There is simply no chance that you can justify one push deserving a knife to the heart in return. They’re simply not the same. A push has one consequence. Stabbing has another. This is a reality as old as time.
Justification as Tribalism
Attempting to justify this is tribalistic and racist at its very core. It’s the attitude that justifies rioting, looting, and violent revenge as necessary means to make right what was wrong. Think to yourself, reverse the races, do you feel the exact same way? I do. A push doesn’t deserve a stabbing death. Period. Regardless of your race.
Apparently, this is what Substack culture readers desire, emotions over fact, tribalism to a fault, and the dissolution of societal standards as long as my team is in peril.
Count me out. I want nothing to do with being popular if that’s what it takes to be popular.
Stay Classy GP!
Grainger
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I would like to know what Substack did to push her essay to the top of everyone’s feed. Nothing in my read history should have made that junk show up in my feed.
Oh man I saw this article. “Black people have boundaries”, that’s where I kinda lost my shit🤣