Nichols’s Death & A Path To Change

Baker’s right. Besides man’s inhumanity to man, Memphis cop outrage needs newly frank “discussion” on race & cops. If so maybe include not only black as well as white on black violence but disrespect for OURSELVES?

As the WSJ columnist says in “Tyre Nichols’s Death Raises Questions About Race & Policing,” swift accountability of those involved in this killing might be a step forward in striving for better justice in our society. Yet, he also asks, would this brutality [allegedly by 5 blacks] ever have happened to an innocent white victim? Unlikely, although the centuries’ old history of my Polish ancestry, including the killing of 6 million Poles (20% of the country’s population) in WWII, suggests it’s possible anywhere & anytime by anybody.

But, perhaps adding to Baker’s discussion & aside from the Memphis atrocity being perpetrated by black cops, might this also be the time to call out any racist’s self-loathing, the true basis for the ugly thing? And, not just the die-hard (or, temporarily insane) extremists of whatever color? Like a myopic Whoopi (not a Jew) Goldberg wondering whether some “white people need to die for things to change.” Or, like other black “comedians” continuing to throw out the “N” word just to trigger the tireless guffaws in mostly black audiences, e.g., the ones I see at DC’s Improv Comedy Club? We’re told it’s a “cultural thing” that no white person could grasp. Maybe so, but how’s it a healthy one? For things to change, don’t we all need to take a closer look in the mirror? Isn’t that at least partly what Jesus meant by all of us having to “be born again” to be beings eventually worthy of Heaven? And, in the case of any human relationship, strive to put into practice as well as see the potential of God’s beauty in any of us, instead of the devil’s ugliness?

Davd Soul