If you mean anything other than that (and you do),
you are incorrect.

This incident doesn't exist in a vacuum.
It exists in a society and culture of
"The Birth of a Naton (the 1915 version)",
the bombing of Black Wall Street, Emmitt Till
(and countless lynchings in the same vein),
the myth of the Black rapist that white
feminists used to get funding for crisis
centers... the same one presidents have used
to get elected... the same one our sitting
president used to take out an ad calling for
the execution of innocent 14 yr old Black male children.

>But I'd argue inversing the race of the participants
>(including the witnesses) is going to produce just about the
>same results.

Correction: You are arguing that race is only a
minor factor in a white supremacist system, which
is to say that, as a white person, you are practicing
racism (white supremacy), as that is one of the
main ways it is practiced. You are either ignorant
of the facts presented above or you don't care about
them. Either way, your contribution to this discussion
is one that only serves to further harm Black people,
and I strongly suspect that this is what you aim to
do whether consciously or unconsciously, as you seem
pretty dedicated to this insistence that we not focus
on race in a system that has harmed us (and continues
to harm us) based on racial classification... not just
minor harm either but some of the most brutal harm in
human history.

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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca