Watching Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd’s neck as he yelled “aaaaaaaahhhhhh” was horrible. Chauvin appeared to be almost nonchalant as he looked around. It’s hard to imagine why he thought this would be okay, even as phone cameras captured the entire nearly 9 minutes he had his knee there until Floyd became unresponsive.

What thoughts could have been going through Chauvin’s mind that would make him think that was okay and have him not consider the groans of Floyd as he lie there hand-cuffed?

For that matter, how did the other cops think it was okay? I couldn’t help but watch this and think of how under Hitler people were asked to do things that until the moment they did them they thought they would never do. Some Nazis who participated who had previously been average citizens said it was like they had just become someone else.

I don’t know Chauvin’s history, though, apparently he had been complained about before, but as far as I know, it wasn’t a complaint about racism.

My big beef is why did we automatically assume that the reason that Chauvin did this was for racist reasons? The only evidence of it so far is that he was white and Floyd was black. Is it possible that it had nothing to do with race and Chauvin was merely a bad cop?

The problem that I see happening over and over is that the people who say we need to stop racism are themselves racist, looking for every opportunity to say the source of a problem is racism. Every time.

But perhaps that’s why the problem that arises never gets solved! If we so readily say, “Oh, that person is just a racist, and it’s their fault for why this happened. If they weren’t racist it wouldn’t have happened.” If you so easily default to this, you allow yourself to avoid dealing with the much more complex problems that have so many more black men going to prison for crimes.

People say they want “criminal justice reform.” It is true that under Clinton’s 1994 federal crime bill that mass incarceration went from 14% to 28% in a short period of time. Democrats deny that it had anything to do with this bill, and for some reason blame Republicans for it. But it doesn’t really matter who did it, there is a problem with tough sentencing.

It is true that if the sentences were reduced, these black men would be out of prison sooner, therefore on any given day, there would be far fewer in prison. But just reducing the length of sentence for certain crimes is simply not enough.

To only reduce the sentencing still allows one to parade their “high moral compass” and avoid the real source of the problems.

If we are to get to real solutions, we need to ask: Why are so many black men committing so many crimes? Let’s say it’s true that they are stopped more often. That’s another issue to deal with also. But if we are to change the whole damn thing, we need to ask, why is this group committing these crimes?

But we’re not even allowed to consider these questions without enormous backlash and being labeled a racist.

Just like we’re not allowed to ask, “Are we sure Chauvin was a racist? How do we know he wasn’t just an egotistical asshole who would have readily have done this to a white guy he didn’t like?”

Until we are allowed to ask questions that challenge the mainstream force-feeding and challenge the status quo of thinking every bad action perpetrated by a cop is due to racism, the issue will never be resolved. But maybe that’s how Democrats want it.

When those people who cannot even be with others asking questions are mentally-capable of discussing the issue from a variety of angles, then we may be able to really locate the real source of the problem and overhaul this “systemic racism” they always talk about.

Meanwhile, it looks like we’re stuck… all of us… in this society that confronts a bad cop’s assault on an innocent with a riotous assault on countless other innocent victims again and again as those who dissallow questions parade their virtue-signaling without any real plan so solve the problem… but keeping their story of how they care about humanity in place.