A slap on the wrist...If you're white!

I know this blog is supposed to be about my journey through self-publishing but sometimes I can't help talking about other things. This morning I am watching Good Morning America and I got not really upset but bothered. There was a story on a woman they called her a socialite, who was addicted to shoplifting. She had a familyroom full of stolen furniture, clothes, everything. So she was on TV crying saying that she was addicted to shoplifting and it stemmed from her childhood and her father and how she couldn't cope. I'm thinking if this was a Sister, number one it wouldn't make the news and number two she'd be in jail. That woman had more than enough stuff to be charged with a felony! But because of her difficult childhood, they say, she gets a slap on the hand. Now, mind you this woman is every bit of forty, and they are putting young black youth who have never had anything; during a time in their life when the latest gear is crucial, during a time where if you wear off brand sneakers you can be isolated from groups, who are too young to realize that stuff doesn't matter, who have seen more in their young life than that forty year old her seen in all of her years, would I'm sure love to have the childhood that she is crying about, being put in jail! But they take this grown ass woman, who is already wealthy, definitely knows better and gives her a spot on GMA.
Not only is this an important lesson about race it is an important lesson about class. Is it okay to steal as long as you can afford to pay for it?