"Two wrongs don't make a right" is inappropriate for the moment, and is an expression of white privi
That shopworn aphorism, "Two wrongs don't make a right," may be useful when we are talking about interpersonal, tit-for-tat resolution of disputes. But it is wholly inappropriate when applied to something like the situation in Minneapolis.
For starters, it limits the moral universe that is under consideration to a single transaction consisting of an action followed by a reaction.l But the protestors in Minneapolis are not only protesting the killing of George Floyd. They are responding to decades, even centuries, of mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of white law enforcement officers, as death after death continues to occur, and as virtually nothing has been done to solve the problem. At a certain point, when an issue like this is permitted to fester for so long, thugs boil over. And once that happens, all normal rules of rational self-interest get thrown out the window, and what comes out is raw, unmoderated, unmodulated rage -- and once that happens, it is largely beyond the ability of any individual or group of individuals to rein in until it has run its course.
We've seen killing after killing of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement. The African American community has been more patient than anyone ever had any right to expect. They are now out of patience, and are doing what they feel they must in order to get our attention. And it's our fault for allowing the can of police violence against persons of color down the road time and time again.
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