How?! How is this at all an inspiring or even effective response?

This is exactly why the truly “United” States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world: America firmly believes in laws and punishment.

This is not justice; we’re clearly not good at it or even willing to try. When Sheryl Swoopes says: “It’s amazing how people will smile in your face but eventually their true colors will show.” Yeah…she’s right because it goes both ways. We’re not vampires: every action is a mirror that broadcasts our reflections. Or in this case…lack of reflection.

The only consistent response we employ is a smug snark laced moral superiority aggressively battering guilty culprits with a job firing the way we use prison time as a social deterrent. Stay In Line Or Else.

We hafta be better than this; we hafta want to be better than this.

~ Sammy Younan