Finding out about the murder of Renisha McBride is very difficult and painful. I feel so much sorrow for her family. The video above is the local news story about her. The gist of it is that this young Black woman (19) had a dead cell phone and a car accident and needed help. Sought out a local resident. Was presumed to be a criminal by this White man and shot on sight. It is similar to Jonathan Ferrell’s story except he was murdered by the police; she was murdered by a civilian resident. Same reasons though.

And like…I am beyond disinterested in the “isolated incident” theories that shape White supremacy and make White privilege function. For once can they engage in both introspection and an institutional/systems perspective versus solely external individualism. And I am even more disinterested in how instead of accountability for the racism that causes this to happen over and over, some Whites will derail with the usual White supremacist lie that Black people “don’t care” when crime is intraracial, when most crime for any race is intraracial, but specific racist history and structural power issues make Black victims of White assailants less likely to ever get justice.

I can’t help but think about the White man who turned the Black mother, Glenda Moore, away during the Superstorm and her two young children died. White supremacy makes empathy for Black people negligible and the belief that we don’t experience pain, can’t be innocent and deserve harm palpable. The history is long, the research is true, the stories are real.

(Update on 11/13/13: Added a different local news story since the original one posted was removed by site owner, so my embed broke. My comments below the video still represent my thoughts.)