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Here’s the quiz…I’m gonna give you a hypothetical situation, and then you answer some simple questions like tell me who the victims are and who the criminals are. Here we go:

In California, a family is asleep in their beds. This particular family consists of a father, mother and their 19-year-old son.
At 4 am, three young men break into the home and tear up the place demanding marijuana. When no drugs are forthcoming they brutally beat the son to the point that he suffers brain damage and later has to be put in a home since he can’t even feed himself.

In response to this, the father shots two of the assailants in the back and then the third assailant runs away.

California has a law called the Provocative Act doctrine which states that if “it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner” then the criminal is charged with murder charges for any deaths that occur.

The father has both both marijuana and prescription medication in his system, both of which he has prescriptions for (this is California remember).

Ok here’s the question:

Who deserves to be charged with murder?

A) The homeowner, as the assailant were obviously there to peacefully negotiate the sale of marijuana
B) The surviving assailant, as it is reasonably foreseeable that breaking into a home at 4 am and almost beating someone’s son to death could lead to the homeowner popping a cap in his dumb ass.

Ok here we go….if you answered B, you are a racist and the NAACP would like to talk to you. Because in this case the victims were white. And the assailants who, let me remind you, broke into someone’s home at 4 am, tried to rob them and then almost fatally beat their son, were black. Therefore, clearly the person at fault here is the homeowner, who was peacefully sleeping in his bed of privilege, no doubt bought with funds earned from slavery, dreaming up new ways to oppress minorities. Ooops, sorry, I was channeling Jesse Jackson there for a minute.

Nevertheless, let us not forget Martin Luther King’s immortal words:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.

Or something like that.

[H/T : Cassy Fiano]