Apparently the “blacklash” from the double murder of two Tampa Police officers is ongoing.
Recall that when three black women called 911 and tried to aid the fallen officers, allegedly shot by suspect Dontae Morris, they were viewed–and honored–by the community at-large as heroes. Recall also, however, that they were seen by many in their own neighborhood as “snitches” and traitors for helping the police.
This is beyond an “us vs. them” subculture in an inner-city, black neighborhood. The women remain scorned outcasts six months later. Arguably, it’s even more deplorable and disgusting than when it began. The women have all moved.
In a moral context, one can, quite frankly, quibble as to whether going to the aid of the tragically and demonstrably dying, when every ebbing second is a matter of life and death, is even “heroic.” Isn’t that what anyone worthy of the definition of human being would–and should–do without equivocation? Indeed, as one of the women herself said: “If you could have seen them on the ground and walked by, you have no soul.”
How sickeningly sobering–and alarming–that a subculture of our society, literally in our midst, is indeed, soulless.