I agree. They are being punished more severely than black athletes who commit assault. And frankly, I believe people should have the right to be racist if their racism amounts to no more than words. I didn’t see anything happen to the Black pampers when they were calling for the death of white babies before the Zimmerman trial, so apparently the media agrees with me-as long as the racists aren’t white.
Thing is, I see three things at play here:
1. Everyone is racist. The question is only a matter of degree.
2. The environment in which we currently live, where we are seeing hundreds (if not thousands) of videos of “blacks acting poorly”, there is actually an increase in the amount of racism in pretty much everyone. That is, if, on a racist (against black) scale of 1 to 100, you used to be a 12, you are probably now an 18, or even a 50.
3. This kinda speaks to number 1. When a person is angry with another person, they may say things that they know will hurt the other person. It means they will “hit them where they are week. A person in a wheelchair you might call a gimp. Your wife who you love dearly you might call a bitch. And if she is black, you might call her a “n****r”. It doesn’t mean you are “racist”. It means you are a flawed human being lashing out at another human being in a way that you think will hurt them.