I love that quote from Game of Thrones, when Cersi Lannister says "I choose violence."

I feel that, in the sense the what I get from White America is lectures on violence. These same folks are largely silent about our 24h/day diet of violence. And I can live in both of those spaces.

I have decided - and this is just in the last day or so - that to engage me on that issue will be an earned privilege. What that means is that I will shut down any exchange where the speaker has no record of taking those who harm us to task.

I cannot - and will not - be subjected to bi-furcated America. I need proof the your problem is violence, and not Black violence. Without it, the speaker will have to probe it with someone else.

I am an American. I will live under a single system of rules and expectations. I am completely disinterested in participating in developing the rule. But whatever the rule is, there will only be one.

I get that violence is a problem, but I am intolerant of specifically talking about violence when the actors look like me.

I won't do it.

Que sera sera.

Gosh, I am so tired <sigh>