I will repeat what I have said before, only with more detail.
Had Eric Garner been Jewish we would have been out on the streets protesting *en masse* the death of a person whose crime was to sell untaxed cigarettes. I would have locked up Garner for a long time — cigarettes kill far more people than Americans — but tax evasion is not a death penalty offense.
Ditto every other police shooting of an African American. Like Philando Castile whose crime was to have a busted taillight — and a legal concealed weapon for which he had a permit. (The National Rifle Association has been conspicuously silent regarding Castile’s death, raising justified outrage at its silence. Apparently it believes that only white people have a right to bear arms.)
When we refuse to be outraged at the violations of the rights of others, we pretend that we don’t have to worry about our own rights. And when they come for us, there will be nobody left to stand up with us.