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The Division in the Country is Bad
First, a full disclosure. When the news broke of the terrible accident in Waukesha, Wisconsin, for ten hot minutes I let my guard drop. I let my mind wander into possible motives involving my set of usual suspects. Then I snapped and remembered the old dictum of breaking news. The story is rarely what first impressions tend to be. There are exceptions, like when we are dealing with a targeted attack. But in general, it’s good practice to wait for the facts.
However, I went looking in the usual places, because I knew there would be reactions. In fact, they were the expected reactions.
On the right end of the spectrum, it was BLM and Antifa. Some even speculated this was a refugee taking matters into his own hands. On the left the speculation moved more into it was a right-winger, a lone wolf.
This was a Christmas parade in a pretty white state. However, the biases from both sides were coming to the surface.
For the right (as soon as the scanner audio revealed the suspect was black) this was the beginnings of the race war they want. The left kept putting its head in the sand that the driver could possibly be black.
As I said, my mind drifted to my own biases for ten hot minutes. But then I told people I knew, wait, this is way early.