[Neurons] 2021 Neurons #16 SAD, TRAGIC, AND UNNCESSARY

Fri Apr 16 15:17:07 EDT 2021

From: L. Michael Hall

2021 Neurons #16

April 16, 2021

SAD, TRAGIC, AND UNNECESSARY

The accidental shooting of a young man that occurred this past week in
Minnesota is a tragedy. There was no need for him to die.  Yet what happened
also shouts volumes-if people will actually think about it and not just
react- about how to avoid getting shot.  The solution?  Stop resisting.  

>From George Floyd to Dane Wright (and the majority of others who have been
shot and killed), there would have been no deaths if those who were being
arrested would just comply.  Even more sad is that the crimes that they were
committing were for the most part small.  Floyd was passing a counterfeit
twenty-dollar bill.  Dante had a warrant for his arrest for a minor issue.
But by resisting- they paid the ultimate price- their lives!

And for what?  I guess they didn't want to get into trouble ... so somehow
they thought that resisting arrest and running or fighting was somehow a
solution!   While the solution is simple and stares us in the face.  But it
is "hard" and "difficult" and maybe even "impossible" for someone with
distorted and biased thinking.

If you believe in "systemic racism," then you will see all police as racists
(over-generalization) and trying to kill you..  Then, in that paranoid
state, you will do the very things that will make things a whole lot worse
for you.  You will fight and resist and that's like to get you killed.

Thinking clearly and unbiasedly is a challenge for all of us.  But the media
is today one of the chief proponents of distorted and biased thinking.  By
highlighting minor variables, they ignore the larger context and statistics
about shootings and deaths.  They completely ignore black on black shootings
which are much, much higher than police shootings.  They ignore the systemic
problem of single-mother families in the black community and the absence of
fathers.  With the media promoting the black lives matter movement and
critical race theory, they encourage biased thinking, racial thinking, and
fallacious thinking.  

After what I wrote on CRT (Neurons #15, April 8), a good friend of mine in
the UK who nailed it with the following words.

"I don't know any other country other than the US where there are so many
successful black people from science, music, entertainment, business and
politics (they voted for a black president twice, no other white  majority
country has achieved this as far as I'm aware).  I also believe no other
country has as many  black millionaire and billionaires, even the countries
in Africa.

For some unfathomable reason the real issues of fatherlessness homes, a lack
of appreciation of education, black on black killings (which has not been
reduced since BLM), the idolisation of the rap culture, is very rarely if
ever discussed."  

              He also sent this YouTube link that's worth listening to:
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mn6ZLzteJg>
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mn6ZLzteJg .

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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