In Colorado this week there was a bombing in front of the offices of the N.A.A.C.P. in Colorado Springs.

Some of the locals who were not in the immediate vicinity were not even aware of it because the news media said nothing about it.

The only description the FBI has of the possible bomber was that people had seen a “Caucasian gentleman get into a white truck” following the incident.

Not a thug, not a terrorist, just a Caucasian gentleman.

A man wears a hoodie, he’s white by the way, and it becomes his trademark mode of dress because he is just that kind of casual guy for a billionaire.

A Back kid walking down the street is killed while wearing a hoodie, and he deserves it because “thugs” wear hoodies.

A white Christian shooting up his place of employment because he was fired is a “disgruntled employee”.

A person interested in the Muslim religion who kills far fewer people at his place of employment because he is fired is an Islamic terrorist.

A White Christian blows up a Federal building killing 168 men, women, and children, and he is a lone bomber. He might have had only one compatriot. At least people were happy to settle with that.

A father and son, who kill an elderly couple, steal their pickup truck, go to another state with the bodies in the truck bed, and shoot at the police who stop them are simply a father and son who killed two people and shot at police. They are not “thugs”.

A White guy standing in the middle of the street brandishing a hunting rifle is told to put it down, and when he does not do it fast enough, he is spoken to calmly until he slowly does.
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A Black minor is seen with what appears to be a handgun in a local park, the police pull up, jump out of the police car and shoot him down. This was okay because he obviously was a “thug”.

A couple of White guys enter a restaurant and a toy store with rifles slung over their shoulders, and are supported in this because they were taking a stand for Second Amendment freedom.

A Black man picks up a toy rifle in the toy aisle of a Walmart and is gunned down for brandishing a gun. He was a “thug”.

A guy enters a church and shoots it up. He is a lone, disturbed man.

Another man of the Christian faith shoots up a Sihk temple and is a lone gunman.

It seems the actions of some individuals are looked at as merely the actions of those individuals, but with others, they represent either an actual group of people, or a stereotype that gives undue gravitas to their actions.

After all as Fox News pointed out, if a person commits a crime with a mask on, we can’t see the color of their skin, or their ethnicity, so we don’t know if they are the enemy.

Of course, the question does come up: Why doesn’t Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim police officer who was killed in Paris defending the freedom of speech represent the majority of Muslims?

Doesn’t fit the chosen narrative

Motivation is in the eyes of the beholder.