So I barely have the sleep out of my eyes when I stumble across an article that declared the police had made an arrest in the racial comment incident at a New Jersey Wal-Mart. A "bias incident" the piggies are calling it. No details were given about the culprit so either s/he was a minor or it doesn't matter who they are so long as Wal-Mart can make nice with the entire black population of America with which the mega-chain has a sketchy past to say the least.
The "incident" was a prank. Someone (a customer? employee? stupid teenagers? We are never told who) got on the store PA system and said, "Attention, Wal-Mart customers: All black people, leave the store now."
Stupid? To be sure. Arrest worthy? Hell no!
Whether any of us like it or not, racism is part of the human condition. Biologically, we're engineered for it. Doesn't make racism right, that's just how our DNA rolls. We are glorified monkeys barely out of the forests after all and these built in discriminators help our feeble ape brains to identify other members of our "tribe". It's a pack mentality a la wolves. Blacks are prejudiced, whites are, Asiatiques are etc. Enlightened men and women all over the world strive to work past all this with varying degrees of success.
So arrest our anonymous, possibly bigoted prankster or learn to accept an uncomfortable truth about mankind as a whole? All I know is if I was in the store when this happened and heard it, I'd have probably given my girlfriend Renee a shocked look and laughed it off. Haha! Man's inhumanity to man again!
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