I've experienced uncontrolled hate and we are going need change if we seek to build a great nation. People targeted me and my family and they walked from that without accountability (It looks that way on the surface). The laws can sometimes be so subjectively blind that they sort of are loosing public trust (Its written universally but applied in partisan and subjective ways. There are times when law should be adjusted for circumstances but that is based on merit and not on race/religion.) . Likely why protests, riots, and other nonsense of failed justice are apparent (I advocate for peaceful protests and restoration of law with wisdom.).
My hope was that the perpetrators received help and the officers that engaged in corruption would be held to account. What is found is two societies have formed (I sort of didn't expect real justice as the group can easily influence locals when they highlight the "outsider" status. We actually have a genetic footprint in the area proceeding most of the others. The only difference is I have a Muslim sounding name and my kids are mixed race.). There is no difference between us and third world nations if the laws designed to harm half of society and ignore the violations of the other half (It damages the entire justice institution. Ask yourself where that leads in the future? Oh yaaa we solve problems in hindsight where they create the most problems and not foresight where we can easily maneuver them.).
While I can't say what exactly happened definitively, I can say that it is a failure to turn ones head blindly away and if such behaviors are acceptable based on the "right" skin color, religion, or have the right social connections. That is why we didn't see the capital riots coming. Our cognitive models were misguided to the possibility that some are given a free hand in hate while others are already assumed to be the problem (Heuristic judgements at various points in the system).
So where do we go now? I'm not sure. Its not up to me. Its up to the moral conscious of those who are in positions of power. However, there are risks to doing the wrong thing consistently when it comes to minorities and giving free passes to those deemed more "worthy'. While we think we are so smart we can not outrun our histories or side step our futures. We will someday find ourselves back into the same problems as a result of miscued alignment of values. We are all Americans and we should be treated as valued members of society. Allowing some to hate on others is a violation of certain codes and values.
Me...I'm going to be polite and engaging but I won't sugar coat failures of society just because I have a Muslim sounding name (I know I know...we have little value and opinions discounted before we uttered a word.). I have seen hate and people walk from that hate (Remember the Tulsa Riots...its happens all the time and only in hindsight we wonder how grotesques and barbaric. Where were all those moral figures at that time when it most counted? I guess just like the riots...waiting to see what the general public sentiment was.). There is little moral anything I need worry about. The rest is up to the values of others. May God (Assuming we believe in intelligent design and/or the value of spirituality) bless them in their choices and their outcomes.
Two different laws for two different people based on racial and religious differences is why we have societal rift (They don't see it because they have not had to experience it. Its different when you assume the risk but the one's who cause it walk with a smirk, nod and grin. Blind leading blind). Failure to see how hate functions and is given a free pass means those rifts don't disappear on their own (Like magic). I advocate universalism in law, its application, and the togetherness of people in one system through wisdom of application. Not two societies with different rules that has increasingly entered the conscious of those on the wrong side.
Human life has more dignity than subjectivity of free walks and free passes for any behavior (as long as you are from the "right" society.). I'm a light right Republican that believes in the freedom of religion and the freedom that comes with liberty (Dirty words in some circles). We don't get to trample on those values just because someone has a racial and religious preference....and definitely not because of social connections. I'm within my rights to advocate for meaningful change that respects the rights of all Americans. (Oh yaaa I forgot....many of our leadership aren't working towards a stronger American as they are still based in partisan politics and subjective values that lead to throwing a wet blanket on our human capital and future prospects as a world leading nation.)
We might not evolved as much as we thought (Assuming you believe in evolution. You can argue either way.). Perhaps we just built a lot of stuff on top of the same primate brain. It seems like we constructed a larger social system on top of very root basic behaviors (See Biology and Society and Economics and Need Fulfillment). Let us try and bump up and not down. 🙈🙉🙊See Vervet Monkeys
We only think that we are very much removed from our roots and past. This is why its important to challenge our bias and ensure that laws are designed for public good and around the needs of modern society. We can create laws and write them with blade sharp prose but we must apply them with wisdom to ensure that certain behaviors are not being encourage. Laws are contracts with society and any societal discord is based on the belief that the contracts are either broken or misused. When you have large scale societal rifts it is because there is a portion of society that feels devalued through misapplication. The best thing we can do to achieve our future goals/challenges as a nation is to universalize our laws to apply to all Americans equally (People should advocate for justice, universalization, and peaceful improvement. Sometimes we don't find common sense changes to be worthwhile until after bigger problems occur and in the midst of chaos. i.e. riots on a national scale. Any group, business, institution or nation must continuously seek higher states of existence through meaningful reflection and persistent adjustment. or not? 🤷)
Shame if we can't, won't, or no longer have the moral authority to do the right thing. It doesn't bode well for where we will be going as a nation (FYI...I hope the perpetrators never spend one moment in jail but I do believe they should have mandatory mental health. What they did was dangerous, dishonest and could have led to injury. Without that our system has said that some people have the right to act in anyway they choose against other people. It highlights the differences in society.)
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