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| Renisha McBride |
A home owner kills and unarmed non threatening young lady and her only mistake was thinking some good and decent homeowner would come to her aid and distress.
But she acted as any of us would have in seeking assistance.
Maybe she wasn't aware of the white neighborhood she found herself in considering the urgency of the her situation.
Who thinks about the color of people in a neighborhood when they need help?
But, I doubt seriously if this young lady had been in a predominantly black neighborhood a homeowner would have open fire on her with a shot gun.
Her death is a stark reminder that being black in a white community in this country can be extremely dangerous and fatal.
But what would provoke and individual to take such extreme action against a defenseless woman?
Have we reached the point in this society that a man with a shotgun against an unarmed woman feels compelled to shoot rather ask a few questions?
Would a reasonable person in this exact situation shoot first without attempting to make an inquiry as to why the young lady was knocking on the door?
The problem with this killing is that it goes much deeper than just a frightened fearful homeowner afraid for his safety.
Ms. McBride and other unarmed people killed by police, vigilantes and homeowners are only victims and casualties of white supremacy....the plague that can't stop killing.
The same white supremacy that has been responsible for the illegal lynchings, kidnappings and murders of black people since their arrival in U.S.
White supremacy gives the false and irrational sense of entitlement, privilege, dominance that a white person has a "natural right" to kill a black person to defend themselves not based on any perceived threat but because blacks are viewed and treated as inferior to whites.
Ms.McBride is dead not because she posed a serious threat to a homeowner. Her black skin color dictated and signaled to her killer he had a bound "right or duty" to defend his property because McBride was black.
No need here to expand on all the negative connotations and stereotypes ingrained in the minds of whites which are associated with being black in this country.
The long held myth saturated in the minds of fearful whites that being black assumes motivations of criminality and illegal behavior is what contributed to Ms. McBride's death.
The truth is for many whites in this country when it comes to situations involving black strangers where they subjectively perceive their personal safety is in jeopardy..... without any necessary provocation......their first response will be to "shoot first" with no thought for the repercussions of their actions.
The "Stand Your Ground" laws passed and enacted in numerous states only serve to preserve white supremacy and insulate whites from their acts of violence against people of color in this country.
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