Last year in a community nearby, the police were summoned to deal with an emotionally disturbed man. He was shot and killed. Yes, he was a Black man. Reading this post brought the incident into a much sharper focus than it had previously been. It also raises questions about what is considered to be dangerously abnormal.
When I was in college, in the early 1970s, one of my friends remarked that "Normal is what's normal for you." We repeated the phrase constantly for several years. Then I graduated and discovered that there are strict definitions of what is "normal" and they do not take into account any individual's definition.
Last year in a community nearby, the police were summoned to deal with an emotionally disturbed man. He was shot and killed. Yes, he was a Black man. Reading this post brought the incident into a much sharper focus than it had previously been. It also raises questions about what is considered to be dangerously abnormal.
When I was in college, in the early 1970s, one of my friends remarked that "Normal is what's normal for you." We repeated the phrase constantly for several years. Then I graduated and discovered that there are strict definitions of what is "normal" and they do not take into account any individual's definition.