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Reason First: Can Eliminating the Minimum Wage Stop Robbers Who Wear Blackface?

What drove a man to paint his face and steal from a bank?

By Skyler SaundersPublished 4 years ago 3 min read

Talk about that old chestnut of adding insult to injury. A white man in blackface robbed a Maryland bank on Friday, January 31, 2020. He is still at large. At this PNC Bank location, witnesses including a camera right behind the teller depict the man as wearing face paint to not only conceal his identity but make a last ditch effort trying to pin the crime on a person of color.

What all of this points to is not white privilege which is a myth or worse, but intellectual impotence on the side of the man with the paint on his face. Why did he not have the idea to start his own bank and protect it from robbers like himself? Why did he have to resort to blatant racism to achieve his unsavory goals? What is the saddest thing is not that he got away with it (so far, as of this writing) but because he has to live with the fact that he is a parasite on society who can’t be man enough to create wealth. At the threat of the start of physical force, this puny person lowered himself to be nothing else but a two-bit thug.

For attempting to look like a black person adds another level of ugliness to this entire story. He surmised that if a report had read simply black man robbing a bank then that would’ve been alright, justified. But thankfully, people have a great deal more sense. The witnesses knew right away that the man had donned paint to make him look like an African-American. This unseemly suspect doesn’t make white people look bad or anyone but himself. By not thinking, creating, building, or producing he has lowered himself to the lowest rungs of humanity. Even if he robs more banks, he will still have to live with the fact that he couldn’t stand on his own mind and chart his course without the use of force. Bank robbers may live high for the moment and even spend months or even years on the lam. But their corroded souls always eat away at themselves because they have nothing to show for themselves but the property that they have stolen.

This poor excuse for a human being may be able to use the funds to buy whatever he could have if he had worked for it. Instead of venturing out and discovering new ideas and applying them to the real world, this punk decided to convince himself that all he is good for is the theft of the frozen expression of a bright mind: money. Dollars represent thought and show that the man who chooses to employ his mind is worthy of all that is possible to him.

Some solutions to crimes like these include proper private schools. With government schools that teach you to feel rather than think, children often find that going to work is for losers and that a life a crime is more appetizing. Greater respect for other people’s skin color and history would solve illegal actions like this. If this punk had any idea of the history tied to people of color and the law, he would’ve possessed more restraint. For his misdeeds, he should be caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law. With the elimination of the minimum wage, this suspect in question would have far greater opportunities to rise up through the ranks. By demolishing this vicious code, anyone willing to work would be given a chance to start at the lowest rungs and through will, effort, and intelligence, raise themselves up and provide for themselves and their families.

Whatever is left of this wimp’s spirit should drive him to turn himself into the authorities. It’s either that or he will have committed one of the blackest of all crimes: he would live life as a second-hander. By not living as an individualist who does not rob or steal but makes and trades, he has already cheated himself. Hopefully, he will not be able to cheat or steal from anyone else.

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Skyler Saunders

I’ve been writing since I was five-years-old. I didn’t have a wide audience until I was nine. If you enjoy my work feel free to like but also never hesitate to share. Thank you for your patronage. Take care.

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