The Dark Side of Privledge

 

The Idea that because something bad has or is happening to me, gives me the right to take any action that I deem appropriate even if it results the most unnatural act of all, the taking of another human being’s life.

 

Ethan Crumbley entered his Oxford High School armed with a pistol and the knowledge that it was okay to shoot it up because his family had been totally disrespected by those immigrant parents who did not care about learning and is the primary cause to his family’s financial struggles. He wanted to change his mind and was hoping that someone would talk him out of it or stop him from completing his task, but no one stood up for him, no one saw him, no one heard him, and no one listened to him.

 

The desire to win the admiration of his parents won out that day and ends now with a 15-year-old teen being charged as an adult on 24 counts of murder and terrorism. He sits in his jail cell, under suicide watch and with a public defender at his side, while those most responsible for not seeing in him a whole lot of them, those who planted that seed of bias in his mind and hatred in his heart for a group of people he didn’t even know, sits in their jail cell with a smirk on their faces and a high powered lawyer by their side.  Perhaps they expect to get the same judge and jury that acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse.

 

The fact that his parents were able to withdraw around $4,000 before going on the run, the fact that they left thee son to fend for himself and the fact that the high-powered lawyer wasn’t hired to represent him but them, should enrage every red-bloodied human being regardless of color, party, or philosophy.

 

But let’s not stop here, there is another side of this privledge spectrum rarely discussed and often ignored and that is when individuals believe that since people who looked like them were slaves that this allows them the right to put forth no real efforts to change their situations or circumstances. That they are allowed to strike out when things do not go right for them, that they are well within their rights to pack up and leave their creations because they cannot get along with their co-creators. That the child will not miss them, will not want for them, will not chase them, and will not try all that they can to win acceptance from them. The same seed that were planted in the mind of Ethan Crumbley are also placed in the mind of children who grow up missing a parent or missing both.

 

At what point did it become okay for parents to concern themselves more about themselves than their own children. How much longer and how many more times are we going to just sit back and accept, individuals creating life but not being held responsible for that creation. We have no hesitation in finding and holding God Almighty responsible for his creations, we need to start holding parents for theirs.

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