Back when, in the days radio still did local news, we’d call the cops in the pre dawn hours to see what might be going on. One little fishing village desk sergeant had the same story each Saturday morning.
“Nothing much happening. Just a couple of African
Americans stabbing each other at the Boatman’s Inn. You’re not interested
in that, are you?”
Well, yeah. We were. And he didn’t exactly call the
people involved “African Americans.”
We were interested because they were real people doing
really bad things to other real people.
Now, it’s not people stabbing each other in a cheap roadside
bar a mile from a fleet of rinky-dink fishing boats owned and run by a bunch of
non-African Americans.
We’ve come a long way. We no longer care about the
color of your skin. But we still care about people killing each
other. And these days, it’s what you don’t do with more importance with
what you do.
Knives? How 1970s! Now we have a better weapon of
choice, germs.
Are the maskless and the vaccine deniers any less deadly
than the knife wielders? In fact, aren’t they not only more deadly but even
more cowardly?
My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them ®
© WR 2021
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