America's Growing Color War

Surely I am not the only one who has noticed there's a war going on inside our borders, yet there it little mention of it in the newspapers, on TV, on websites and podcasts, in fact anywhere. The two sides are the Blacks and the Whites. You can be on either side regardless of your skin tone, although for the most part white people are on the White team and black people are on the Black team.

These days evidence of The Color War can be found everywhere there are people. 

A stunning example could be seen today on TV when the verdict for Kim Potter, the white policewoman who mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her taser and killed a young black man during a traffic stop in Minnesota, was announced. She was convicted on two counts of manslaughter and held without bail until her sentencing in early February, and she likely faces at least 15 years in prison.

Watching this drama unfold in the privacy of my home, I was brought to tears for the woman whose life, at 49, is now and forever ruined, going from defender of the law to incarcerated jailbird in one chaotic instant. But outside the courthouse it was a different story as the assembled crowd of mostly black people, ready to protest had Potter been found innocent, erupted into exuberant cheers during the reading of the verdict over a loudspeaker.

I was reminded of all the black people cheering WILDLY at the verdict of not guilty for OJ Simpson, despite everyone knowing in their hearts that he had deliberately murdered two white people, and not by accident. It was the Whites against the Blacks in 1995 and it hasn't changed, except to get worse.

I wonder if there is even one black person anywhere in America today who feels a shred of pity for Ms. Potter, just like I wondered back then if any black person would admit that justice had not been served in the Simpson case. If so, they would never admit it.