America's missing moral compass

High schoolhouse pupil Kaelen Tucker was rounding the curve during the 4x200 metre relay contention astatine the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championships astatine Liberty University past period erstwhile she was whacked connected the caput by a baton held by her competitor. Tucker instantly grabbed her caput and veered sharply disconnected the track. All the momentum she had, the momentum that had propelled her past her slower assailant, was lost. 

In a wholly righteous world, Tucker would person been the sole focus. Her assemblage would person rallied astir her for being unfairly robbed of her spot successful the competition. They would person talked astir each the hard enactment that she enactment into her assemblage and tone to go an elite runner. And they would person shamed her assailant into acknowledging her transgression and pledging to amended herself arsenic a subordinate of the community. 

But we don’t unrecorded successful a wholly righteous society. For acold excessively many, their motivation compass is off. 

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After the incident, the assailant, Alaina Everett, told a section quality presumption that she deed Tucker by accident. "I mislaid my equilibrium erstwhile I pumped my arms again. She got hit," Everett said. "I cognize my intentions and I would ne'er deed idiosyncratic 1 purpose."

I saw the video with my ain 2 eyes. I watched the video aggregate times. Everett whacked Tucker connected the caput without question. She lifted her limb astatine her passing rival and whacked her. No 2 buts astir that. 

What happened astatine that infinitesimal was that Everett knew she was getting beat. She wasn’t bully capable for immoderate reason. Maybe she didn’t enactment successful the hard enactment oregon she couldn’t find that other speed. Whatever the reason, that infinitesimal exposed her shortcomings arsenic a runner. Rather than excavation successful and tally each out, knowing heavy down that she would person to enactment successful adjacent much work, she mislaid her composure and did the unthinkable. 

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What besides struck maine astir that interrogation that Everett gave to the section TV presumption was that she asked for her feelings to beryllium considered. "Everybody has feelings," she said. "So you’re physically hurt, but you’re not reasoning of my intelligence well-being." 

Huh?

This is sad. No, this is shameful. 

Everett is trying to debar the information and what happened adjacent astonished me. A rally was aboriginal held successful her grant and the NAACP showed up successful her defense. The Black assemblage has been screaming "Black excellence" astatine America for truthful long, and they take to rally down idiosyncratic similar this?  

The NAACP section from Portsmouth, Virginia said, "Alaina is NOT AN ATTACKER and media headlines that allude towards that successful immoderate mode is shameful," the enactment said. She is an exceptional young person and student whose diversion endowment has been well-documented and recognized crossed our state. She has carried herself with integrity some connected and disconnected the field, and immoderate communicative that adjudicates her blameworthy of immoderate transgression enactment is simply a usurpation of her owed process rights."

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The communicative is that Alaila did not prevarication astir what happened. The communicative is that our eyes showing the baton landing connected Tucker’s caput with specified unit are lying to us. The communicative is that we indispensable judge the assailant, we indispensable judge the NAACP, and we indispensable judge those whose motivation compass is truthful acold disconnected that adjacent the atrocious histrion down connected the country has much balance.

And wherever is her family? Is determination immoderate decent quality determination who knows close from wrong?

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In immoderate ways, what happened present reminded maine of what happened successful Ferguson, Mo., instantly aft the shooting of Michael Brown. If you watched the documentary, "What Killed Michael Brown?" Shelby Steele details however the prevarication of "Hands up, Don’t Shoot" took a beingness of its own. It was wholly divorced from reality. 

What happens erstwhile lies similar those proceed to fester successful our society? When the information lies buried? It creates an immoral streak passim our society. It permits individuals to shun idiosyncratic accountability for lies. It permits once-vaunted organizations to bastardize themselves earlier lies. 

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That is wherefore Everett indispensable inactive beryllium held afloat accountable. There is nary different enactment that she tin instrumentality different than a afloat and sincere apology. The lone mode to extremity this charade is to halt it successful its tracks. 

It is lone until she does, that she tin enactment connected becoming a amended idiosyncratic and subordinate of our society. 

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