Without over-focusing on the perpetrator at the expense of the victims, this kid - this human being - probably got tossed into the tumbler before he could even get his bearings on life. He most likely was born into a hurricane, floating on a life boat, and everyone around him ended up wondering why he lashed out. It's not okay, what he did. But it's a big mistake to end his story in a small cell, dust our hands and imagine that we "solved another one". There are more kids out there like him... more kids who have been completely left behind to either drown or fight. And, by the way, that scale slides all the way from someone like him to the most well-adjusted, A+ student with a wholesome family to come home to every night.
This is why I HATE movements like BLM, that act like only people of a certain race struggle. I'd love for someone like Ibram Kendi to spend a week in the hills of eastern Kentucky, or southern West Virginia. He'd see the same damned rot that he sees in inner city Chicago, or New York. It's not about race. It's about despair.
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