Daniel Penny
From Eli Steel:
No, Neely's life was not taken because of vigilantism.
What chance did he have when his father abandoned him?
When his mother was murdered by his stepfather, stuffed in a suitcase, and he was forced to testify?
When no one stepped up -- not one blood relative or one clergy -- to stop him from entering of the worst institutions known to innocent children: the foster care system.
When there was no one to receive him after he aged out of the foster care system and provide him a roof over his head or, at the bare minimum, an encouraging word.
Yet the focus is on race, on skin color. What about Neely's humanity? What he needed in life was the human touch, the spiritual touch, not blackness.
It is stop to stop blaming the white man. It is time to put responsibility where it belongs.
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