So this thing happened

I watched a man get choked to death yesterday. One man wrapped his arms around another man's throat, slammed him belly first onto the ground, and crushed the life out of him while his daughter Screamed, "Please don't kill my daddy." While he did this, his wife, who was a uniformed sheriff's deputy tried to shoo away witnesses who were filming. The man struggled, turning purple, and then struggled less. And less. The whole incident took about 2 minutes.


Do you know how long two minutes is when you're watching someone die? When you're watching, and you can't do anything to help? I couldn't do anything because it was a video of an incident that happened in Texas. I didn't choose to turn on the video, it popped up on my Facebook feed, while I was updating myself with the day's news. It began playing, and I could not look away.


How have we become so sick? Texas is a State where the Rights and Liberties of Men are thrown around as if they were the last defender's in the Nation. Where the idea of the Rights of Men are so sacred, they would rather force Millions of women to have a baby against her will than violate the theoretical rights of a zygote. And apparently, In Texas, they'll Kill a man for pissing on a wall, and the Sheriff's Deputies will shoo away the witnesses. And people defend him.




How did we get here? Here in a world where millions of American's will watch it on their tiny news screens, and be so jaded that they would make snarky comments beneath the video, and think, "which side will this help?" Does that not sound unreal to you? How did we become so sick? 


A world where a news organization would post that on a public feed, and it's simply the next story you scroll past, right after a clever one from The New Yorker, (which, I'm glad that the Editors "wanted to take a break from politics") and the Story of a Video-game-playing girl. They posted it as if it wasn't a video of a man getting life fife crushed out of him, for two minutes. They posted it as if it was just another thing that happened that day. And we all watched and though, "Here's another thing that happened today." How have we become so sick?


The article, by the way, was about how the girl had gotten dressed up in the costume of her favorite video game character, took pictures of herself, and posted them on the Internet, where potentially millions of people would see.


It is, in fact, a thing millions of people do every day.


However, when she did it, she was bombarded with thousands and thousands of messages from people who were calling her the most disgusting things that they could think of, just spewing their pure hatred towards her, because she was a black person. And Black people aren't supposed to dress up as their favorite videogame characters. How? How have we become so sick?
How are we simply living in this world?


The preacher can hear someone in the back stand up and shout, "Lord, It's the Devil! He's got a hold of us!" Alas, that is not what has happened. And don't you dare try to shirk your responsibility.