The Immoral List

A disturbing video circulated on Twitter showing a Black student sucker punching and continuing to beat a White girl while she lay on the ground repeatedly saying, “WTF did I do?” The violence itself is horrifying enough. What followed was worse.

The clip was shared by Rev. Ray Cistman, who captioned it, “‘WTF did I do?!’ Try googling slavery.” In one sentence, an act of real, present day violence against an individual was reframed as collective punishment for historical crimes she had no part in. This wasn’t commentary, education, or justice. It was ideological cruelty. History was weaponized to excuse brutality, and empathy was deliberately withheld.

When violence is justified based on race, we are no longer talking about anti racism. We are talking about dehumanization. No historical atrocity grants moral permission to celebrate or rationalize the assault of someone begging for answers on the ground. If the roles were reversed, the outrage would be immediate and unanimous. Accountability cannot be selective, and justice cannot depend on skin color. Once we start excusing violence, we lose any claim to moral authority.