These videos promote the image of death, suffering, and public shame that has plagued our communities for years. Our pain is consistently on full display and buried within the context of criminality, inhumanity and justifiable death. These "virtual lynching crowds" we're creating must cease.

Yes, black people have many behaviors that are a direct or indirect result of discrimination and socio-economic factors. But that doesn’t exonerate us from any responsibility for our own behavior, and to ridicule the idea that we should try to be better people is to keep our situation stagnant.