Noah on Amber Guyger Getting a Hug from Judge: This Narrative Doesn’t Seem To Be Afforded to Black People

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NOAH: “Everybody should have a judge look at them like a human being. Everybody in society should be treated with a level of compassion. They should still be punished if they’ve committed a crime, but we should still look at them as human beings and, yet, this narrative doesn’t seem to be afforded to black people in America especially by the news, because if you look at all the news stories about this, they paint it, like, it’s a beautiful moment where she’s hugged by everyone. They don’t use the same editorial when a young black child is going to jail. They don’t go this young black man who was recruited into a gang and had no other choices — they’re just, like, he was sentenced and found guilty and that’s the story, as if that’s what’s expected. It almost feels like if you’re a black person and commits a crime and goes to jail, that’s what black people. Do but if you’re a white person and commits a crime and goes to jail, it’s, oh, what a Disaster story.“