Kyle Rittenhouse Is Acquitted: Once Again America Misses The Point
To get the right answer you need to ask the right questions
I can feel it becoming a question in a history paper about the second American civil war. ‘Compare and contrast the how the cases of Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse contributed to the second shot heard around the world.’ — both cases received global coverage and both cases feel like they could be contributing to a fundamental shift in the psyche of a complicated and divided country.
So let’s get the race question of the way first. I think if Rittenhouse had been black he would likely have been shot by law enforcement. That’s what racism and privilege look like.
I also think if either of the men who had been shot by Rittenhouse had been black, the US would be arming itself against nationwide insurrection. That’s what anti-racism narrative looks like.
Everyone involved was white… I don’t know what that does to the state of the conversation around race in the current climate, other than adding further complexity to an already overwrought situation.
White on white shootings don’t carry the same political weighting at this particular juncture of US history.
