re: #153 Kragar

Rule of thumb: If you find yourself coming up with justifications not to be outraged by cops shooting and killing a 12 year old, just fucking shut the fuck up.

All this talk unearthed a memory I had long forgotten. When I was around 12, my parents gave me a BB gun. I was out in our backyard shooting (our house lot had been carved into a hill, so there was no open area where a BB could have escaped) when a cop appeared on the lot next door (the next door neighbors were assholes and had called the cops on me).

Lucky for me, those were saner days, and of course I was white, so nothing happened. Playing with BB guns and fake guns was a part of growing up for me. Other than that one time, my friends and I were never bothered by anyone because of it. Of course, my friends weren’t black either.