I think comedian Chris Rock may have struck a raw nerve when he told about the “dumbing down” of Black People when it was commended that one of them did something that they along with the rest of us were supposed to do, anyway, like work for a living, stay off welfare, stay out of jail, etc.…The “dumbing down” of Black People that Chris Rock talked about in his act has spread beyond Black People to just about anything in America these days, where now we are commending police officers for doing what is normally their job and we expect them to do it, because they volunteered, met or exceeded the qualifications and got hired on.…The America of today seems like a “comic book” version of itself, where each criminal out there is treated like a “super-villain” and the everyday folks that go after them, the police and other Law Enforcement agencies, the “super-hero”.…Sooner or later, we may wind up commending waste haulers these days for picking up trash and plumbers for unclogging pipes—tasks that they normally do day-in and day-out, are hired to do because the applied for the job and met the qualifications for that job, just like Law Enforcement professionals did for their jobs.…The “dumbing down” of America needs to cease.…We need to stop commending regular people who do their regular jobs or execute their responsibilities or discharge their regular responsibilities and treating their accomplishment of their regular and expected tasks as an extraordinary feat, which it wasn’t.…We expected the police to act on this terrible act, and they did, just like they were supposed to.…And it was nice to see that the system of Law Enforcement worked here as it was supposed to.…Was it an extraordinary feat?…No.…It was only part of their regular job.…Why treat this like it was anything but that?
I think comedian Chris Rock may have struck a raw nerve when he told about the “dumbing down” of Black People when it was commended that one of them did something that they along with the rest of us were supposed to do, anyway, like work for a living, stay off welfare, stay out of jail, etc.…The “dumbing down” of Black People that Chris Rock talked about in his act has spread beyond Black People to just about anything in America these days, where now we are commending police officers for doing what is normally their job and we expect them to do it, because they volunteered, met or exceeded the qualifications and got hired on.…The America of today seems like a “comic book” version of itself, where each criminal out there is treated like a “super-villain” and the everyday folks that go after them, the police and other Law Enforcement agencies, the “super-hero”.…Sooner or later, we may wind up commending waste haulers these days for picking up trash and plumbers for unclogging pipes—tasks that they normally do day-in and day-out, are hired to do because the applied for the job and met the qualifications for that job, just like Law Enforcement professionals did for their jobs.…The “dumbing down” of America needs to cease.…We need to stop commending regular people who do their regular jobs or execute their responsibilities or discharge their regular responsibilities and treating their accomplishment of their regular and expected tasks as an extraordinary feat, which it wasn’t.…We expected the police to act on this terrible act, and they did, just like they were supposed to.…And it was nice to see that the system of Law Enforcement worked here as it was supposed to.…Was it an extraordinary feat?…No.…It was only part of their regular job.…Why treat this like it was anything but that?