On May 25th, 2020 a record number of people discovered black lives mattered for the very first time following the death of George Floyd. That was followed up by some high profile trials in both Minnesota and Wisconsin, which created even more racial tensions.
Only one day passed between Kyle Rittenhouse’s verdict and the Waukesha Christmas Parade Incident. Dozens injured, 6 dead, and a man arrested without incident, after being invited into a Waukesha home and offered a sandwich.
Each of these trials produced wildly different levels of outrage, with Brooks’ barely raising a blip.
I have made tasteless memes, commentary, and watched every moment of the Brooks trial and what was being said about it in different venues. I’d similarly done this with Mohamed Noor, Derek Chauvin, Kim Potter, Rittenhouse and now, Brooks but Brooks was the only one resistant to outrage.
The outrage levels for these events seemed to be determined by who was the victim and who was the perpetrator. Certain perpetrators seem to generate outrage, as well as certain victims, but then not others.
Living in a World of Lies
I’ve often publicly laid the blame for many of the problems in inner city schools on white women.
In particular, it is a specific dynamic that I’ve observed between women and Black children.
The majority of teachers are white women who lie for a living. They have to lie or else students, parents, administrators, and other faculty would have them fired.
The union would support the school, especially in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Over his three week trial, I watched Darrell Brooks try every manipulative and histrionic coercion strategy. He could easily flush out the African American Stereotype completely.
Judge Dorow politely handled Brooks’ temperament, as if she were a third grade teacher and Brooks were a child. Here he argues with the judge to be let back into the courtroom and then complains off cam that the judge is only going to kick him out again.
The judge spent three weeks on the receiving end of every stereotypical, social-extortion tactic all the while Brooks was claiming his trial was unfair. This might be persuasive to me had I not listened, real time, to the Judge spending days trying to talk him out of representing himself.
In another incident Judge Dorow explains to Brooks that there will be a viewing of the red SUV. Brooks asks why it would require that he be present.
She explains that the SUV is a piece of entered evidence, and when she advises him that she is going to require him to be there, he complains.
The following day, the judge asks him if he would like to be present at the viewing. Brooks says he does not want to attend the viewing, but also that he is not waiving his right to be at the viewing.
The judge explains that she has rethought the issue overnight, and will grant him his wish to not attend.
But by his logic, if he does not view the SUV, nobody views the SUV. When she explains that the viewing will take place with or without him, he begins to argue about how he will be allowed to view the SUV. In shackles? In the room at the same time as the jury? How many bailiffs will escort him? Will he be allowed to circle the SUV as the jury will be allowed to do?
Under Raged White People
The Christmas Parade Case has generated far less public interest and outrage than George Floyd. Who matters to whom, when, and for how long seems to be widely variable.
Under-raged white people in Wisconsin politely tried and convicted Darrell Brooks with hardly a peep from the gallery and no protest in the streets.
Brooks was raised in Kenosha, surrounded by white women; nearly everyone he would have met who tried to help him was white. The guy who invited Brooks, a stranger, into his house and offered him a sandwich was also white.
Waukesha is between Kenosha and UW Madison, where Kimberle’ Williams Crenshaw, famous for Intersectionality theory and suggesting that all white people are complicit beneficiaries in a racist system, developed Critical Race Theory in 1989.
For the moment I’ll put aside the horrendous slander of Dr. Crenshaw and her acolytes as they heap derision for the system of white supremacy that allegedly protects the interests of white dancing grandmothers and an 8 year old child.
Instead, I’d like to focus your attention to the pseudo-reality that’s been created by the social and professional enforcement of lies by white women who’d rather go along to get along.
I’d posit since this trial is such a full record of the stereotypical dynamics between white women and Black children, that it is worth studying.
Which tactics would anonymous white teachers identify as being “stereotypical”?
How prevalent are those tactics?
We may one day soon be able to ask those questions in public and have white men and women answer them openly.
In the meantime, we may have to settle for anonymous answers or no answers at all.
