On Mar. 23 in Washington D.C., two young Black girls, aged 13 and 15, entered the vehicle of Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar, used a stun gun to subdue him and drove off, flipping the car shortly thereafter. A recent immigrant from Pakistan which he had left to escape the violence there, Anwar was killed in the accident.
Having caused what was no doubt an unintended fatality, the two girls have been charged with “felony murder.” Black Newsman Juan Williams has taken a good deal of heat from “conservatives” for his attempt to mitigate the criminality of the girls, saying that given they were only looking to go for a joy ride, it is really sad that their lives may in fact be ruined.
We each have one life and one life only. Mr. Anwar’s is over. What his family is going through, one can only imagine. While I understand Williams’ concern for the two young girls, my “conservative” sympathies inevitably tend to the victims of crimes rather than their perpetrators. Carjackings in D.C. are apparently out of control, many of them committed by teens. Whereas last year at this point there had been only 22, there have been over 100 already this year. Is it possible the sentimental and morally bankrupt responses of those such as Williams only serve to encourage such “harmless” criminality?
But as awful as is Anwar’s needless death and its possible impact on the future of those who caused it, one aspect of the incident truly stands out as a sign of our degenerate times.
As Anwar lay there dead or dying, one of the girls, seeing the police were about to lead her away, could be heard lamenting: “Please, my phone is in there. My phone is in there!” Having just killed another human being, her main concern was that her phone was still in his car.
Gross stereotypes are the stock and trade of the political Left. Obviously there continue to be hundreds of millions of decent people of all ages, races and creeds who would find the insensitivity of the young girl in question utterly shocking. But in the post-modern West, fed by the absurd Marcusian notion that life is cruel, that restraint is oppressive, that we are all entitled to our heart’s desire at whatever the cost to others, several generations of the young, when not taught otherwise by their parents, have become infected with the sort of pathological egotism evident in our carjacker who put the value of her cell phone before the life of another human being.
It is the sort of moral nullity which Rev. Rivers discovered at the heart of Black inner-city America. It is a condition reflected in the behavior of those tens of thousands of ANTIFA and B.L.M. protesters who, when asked why they were breaking into government buildings, pillaging various retail outlets, burning police cars and screaming obscenities at any who opposed them, could offer no rational explanation. It is reflected in the unconscionable ignorance of young adults who, when questioned about the Holocaust, have no idea of what it was. It is reflected in Kamala’s mindless assertion that Cardi B is a wonderful role model for the young. Saddest of all, it is reflected in the stupidity of that myriad of “intellectuals” and their “progressive” media minions who refuse to be duly censorious of behavior that is truly barbaric because doing so must inevitably reveal the emptiness of the world-view they have come to adopt as a religion.
Seemingly sharing Kamala’s sophisticated ethos, Barack Obama suggested not so long ago that the young “social justice warriors” pillaging America’s streets while showing no respect for the Rule of Law or the Rights of Others, were nevertheless its “hope for the future.” Ugh!