I could stand only 5 minutes of the Netflix movie on jeffrey dahmer before turning it off. I refused to allow it to disturb my peace by watching Black folks and melaninated others be subjected to torture by this white boy with damn near impunity. He was presented as fully human, rarely if ever, seen in handcuffs, much less shackles, despite being fully subhuman as one who preyed upon the most vulnerable and least protected, believed or defended in society.
He was literally a cannibal eating people and was treated with more dignity and respect, once finally arrested, than will be many Black folks stopped for a mere traffic violation. Until justice was rightfully served him by another inmate, he was never treated as the heartless barbarian that he truly, truly was.
Once again, as was the case for dylan roof, the Charleston mass murderer and payton gendron, the Buffalo mass murderer, and so many other white male mass murderers, white skin trumped that he be treated or paraded before the cameras for the world to see, as the violent criminal deviant he was. The courts and the media presented him as a poor pathetic mentally imbalanced and fragile white boy deserving of prayers and sympathy.
Although he had tortured and eaten others, no one was afraid of him, not the cops who arrested, not the sheriff officers who escorted him for court proceedings, not the judge with the gavel, nor the baliff maintaining order in the court. No One was afraid of a real live human consuming cannibal! No One!
The press and the courts humanized him and never attacked, persecuted or belittled him or his family. Somehow the public was supposed to feel sorry and of course be forgiving and understanding of familial dysfunction. He was a barbaric cannibal!
To each his own but I opted to protect my peace [of mind] and I refused to watch us, Black folks and other naturally melaninated people, being unapologetically disrespected yet again...
#protectyourpeace
#noto the doublestandard
#nojustice
