🧵 I'm 40, never been to jail, never been stoned or drunk, married to one woman, a father of 2, & a medical doctor who's helped support/mentor disenfranchised blacks boys but I'd be forgotten in a week by the "black" community if I died tomorrow unless I was shot by a cop unarmed

I don't do what I do to be remembered/honoured, but I think the cultural groupthink to canonise & immortalise all alleged black victims of police brutality should be interrogated with good reason. Who are the heroes we look up to? What exactly is the legacy of their character?

I'm not saying those who die from police brutality shouldn't be remembered by their families & communities, but should they be enshrined in the public conscience as cultural icons purely on those grounds?

Perhaps this obsession tragically reveals that #BlackLivesMatter to the public conscience as a tool to fuel the outrage economy of self-defeating Leftist policymakers. For E.g. Defunding the police which hurts everyone - esp black folks, depends on this narrative.

Life should matter period, from the womb to the tomb, the cradle to the grave. Not as hashtags for political chess moves. A life loss in gang culture, by abortion, by police brutality are all equally tragic but not in the way we comparatively honor and esteem them.

I also want us to have real standards to choose our heroes, models and those collectively remembered and iconised. The bar seems low right now, considering those more likely to be lionized by the culture have very little moral reputation of note.