-By Gary Krasner
You won’t read this observation in National Review Online, because some people might find it offensive. Even though it’s a frank observation, with a little tongue-in-cheek added.
Yesterday, I posted to some friends this video of a black bear and her cubs occupying a family’s back yard above-ground pool.
(Note: We don’t know if the family is white or black, or “white” hispanics.)
Later on, I had time to view the full 11 minute video.
It was later in the video where we saw the inflated pool toys being destroyed by the bears’ rough treatment of them.
And this is where some people may accuse me of being racist, because it was at that point in the video when I was reminded of another video we saw a couple of months ago.
That was the video released last June showing black rowdy teens occupying a private community pool in Texas, and ignored the police orders that they leave.
Now, even though both videos showed a violation of private property, I’ll admit there are a couple of differences:
First, it was enjoyable to watch cute bears playing in a pool–even when they were gnawing on the child’s floatie.
That’s because bears are covered in fur and look cute. And they don’t use foul language.
And second, the bears didn’t pull the “Michael Brown” race card when they were forced to leave. Even though they were black.
And besides that, the pool incident in June was more complicated than being just about race.