People are people so why should it be ...

PHOTO CREDIT: MSN.com

I remember when this story first appeared in my linkedin profile .... here the story investigates who these people are and were.   This story is about people,  helping people.   Every time I see a story like this one - I see the third option to a systemic problem that must be addressed and fixed.   I also see real people who know nothing of the other bestowing beneficience instead of doubt and bestowing purity instead of questioning intentionality...I see people of different cultures and different lives and different backgrounds stepping up.  And then I hear the music of Depeche Mode playing and singing out: 

"people are people so why should it be that you and I should get along so awfully...." 

Here's the link to the story I found on MSN: Protesters who protected a lone cop recount two unsettling minutes of chaotic night 

Black Lives Matter is one of many ironies to criticize when looking at the life of a wealthy, white, powerful man: Bezos is moving forward, imperfections and all.

Annie Palmer of CNBC reports on Amazon's Bezos and Black Lives Matter.

Bezos is going to get criticized here no matter what he does or says.  He has millions of employees,  under paid and overpaid.  He stands firm in supporting black lives matter while doing business with law enforcement. He does not deny that lives matter and he stresses that racism is a matter that must be highlighted for those who are disparatively and systemically mis-treated.  He owns a media conglomerate that at times reports on both sides and even multiple sides of an issue.   He markets face recognition products and he could therefore put oppressed populations at risk. Annie Palmer of CNBC wonderfully highlights the double binds of Bezos in his business and in his social injustices stance - with contradictions galore.  Bezos has been married and divorced reportedly with some scandals here too.  He has been a tax contributor and a subsidy benefactor. He's white and wealthy and powerful.  

It looks to me like he's not an "all bad" or an "all good" human, but one who stands to reason and attempts to move forward, with some degree of strength.  His evidentiary contradictions can be judged as hypocrisy, or more cynically as ill intent.  Maybe,  like allot of the world, he's working with what he has to make something better.  Perfect?  Not even close.

I found this report to be well balanced,  fair, full of critical thinking and in tune with cause and effect and the human factor - allowing the reader to conclude on his/her/their own what it is that fits for them. 

Thank you,  Annie Palmer from CNBC, for this kind of reporting.