It's a large, grown man, a police officer in a vest with a gun, pepper spraying a helpless little girl for fun. Her eyes will burn and she will scream in pain. She will likely throw up from the mucous caused by the spray. And she will know that there are people in the world who think she is worthless.
If you can callously spray a child with pepper spray, or kill someone because you have a badge and you just want to, then you have decided long before that there are some people whose lives don't matter.
You have decided that the world would be better off without that person.
You have decided that the child you are pepper spraying is not a member of the human race and deserves no more respect than a bug in your bathtub.
It might be a black person. It might be a poor person. It might be a mentally handicapped person. It isn't about the kind of person you decide isn't human. It's about the kind of person that sprays a child with pepper spray or kills just because he wants to and can get away with it.
The measure of a person is in what they do when they have power over others. If they fail this test, they should be immediately and forever removed from positions of power and forced to seek counselling.
Science has proven that we are all one human tribe.
To imagine that some parts of the tribe are worth less than others is wrong and futile.
We must stop this idea of racism because there is only one race of people.
The human race.
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