The Cost of Race Hustling
Stirring emotions and wearing expensive suits before a fawning media with microphones and cameras has its countervailing effects. Burning buildings and lost businesses are terrible material consequential losses. But of late, the deaths, the execution of two police officers sworn to serve and protect fill the loss column.
Race hustling is a violent sport. Fake reverends and loopy mayors should check their doorsteps to see what has been laid there because of their inflammatory conduct. Those held as the highest legal authority in the country should hold in check their acquired biases and tricky tactics such as withholding investigatory testimonies that may bring truth and clarity rather than feed the fire. Pro athletes should stick to their games, put away the t shirts and quit the self righteous posturing.
We will hear that the executions of the police officers were not about Ferguson or Staten Island. We will be told it is from a larger “problem”. Untrue. We will be told that, all along, the message has been “non violence” from the fomenters. If that was the message, it was whispered into a sleeve.
So, to those who stir emotions before microphones, finesse the facts and testimonies that might change perceptions from myth to truth, next time you slip on your $400 shoes and your $2000 suit and climb into your limo, check your doorstep on the way out of your luxury abode. You may have to step over a couple of bodies today.