Gun Violence

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Psychosis of People Like Michael Dunn

Angry Giraffe

Angry Giraffe


Some people have a skill for finding ways to justify their insanity.

Here are six things that people like Michael Dunn do to get themselves into trouble and to justify their racist behavior.

        1. Demean other people’s culture
          Michael Dunn’s first response to hearing hip-hop music at the gas station was to say “I hate that rap crap.”


        2. Use their privilege to hassle those with different cultures or lifestyles
          Michael Dunn could have parked away from the music. Instead he parked next to the music and used his able bodied, white privilege to confront the teens, asking them to turn down the volume.


        3. Blame the victim
          Michael Dunn, after shooting three bullets into Jordan Davis and 6 more bullets into the Durango then tells his fiance that he was the victim.


        4. Don’t learn about the failings and oppressiveness of White culture. Always feel superior.
          If Michael Dunn had ever taken an African American history class, he might know that White people have been pushing Black people around since the first enslaved Africans were human trafficked to the Americas in 1526.


        5. See phantom weapons. Cell phones and wallets as guns.
          If Michael Dunn would have studied implicit bias, or systemic racism – he may have known that he should second guess his own fears and biases and not jump to conclusions.


        6. Acting as if in a war zone
          If Michael Dunn was level headed, he would only show his gun to scare away what he perceived as a threat. Apparently he thought he was in a war zone. He shot first and asked questions later.


          7. photo credit: Adam Foster | Codefor via photopin cc

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The Logic of the Michael Dunn Jury

 

The most amazing feature of our era is the belief that 300 years of racist policy gives no tell on our daily lives. The second is the belief that juries are somehow beyond reproach.

 

This is about whether we will live in candor or live in flattery. This is about whether we will continue the dishonorable tradition of leaving uncomfortable business to be inherited by our children…

 

A very wise man wrote me the other day and said he would have been happier if Dunn had been convicted of first-degree murder, gotten 15 years, and then was released to try to pick up the pieces of his life. And I think that really gets to the point. This is not about the ruination of white people—individual or collective. This is about coping with a heritage of regarding black people as subhuman.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

“Proof that Michael Dunn’s mistrial wasn’t about confusion over self-defense”

 

@xtinasterbenz

 

See on www.theatlantic.com

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Black In America: Open Letter To All My Sons (in memory of the young Black men murdered without cause)

 

“What you hate, change it. What you value, share it. What you love, cultivate it. ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

There’s a line in this letter that says “This country has never loved us…”

 

I explained what the country does love in the comments.

See on theangriestblackmaninamerica.wordpress.com