I run an On This Day page. I post births, deaths, historical events, entertainers, inventors, tragedies, controversies, and major cultural moments connected to the date they happened. But every time George Floyd’s name appears, people flood the comments foaming at the mouth like the page suddenly became a personal attack on them. Not discussion. Not context. Just mockery, contempt, conspiracy theories, “drug addict,” “criminal,” “6 years sober,” and celebration over a dead man. And what makes it worse is that many of the same people performing this cruelty will also tell you they are Christians, patriots, moral people, and defenders of “family values.” That compassion disappears real fast when the person suffering is someone they already decided does not deserve humanity. Nobody said George Floyd was perfect. That is not the point. And it is not that some people cannot separate a person’s flaws from their humanity. It is that they do not want to when it comes to certain people. Because if they wanted to, they could. People separate humanity from flaws every day for family members, celebrities they like, addicts they love, criminals they sympathize with, and public figures they relate to. But when it comes to certain people, suddenly every mistake becomes justification for mockery and emotional detachment. That is why these comment sections say more about the commenters than the post itself. Because if racism and hatred were truly dead, some of y’all would not be this emotionally committed to mocking one dead Black man six years later. Behavior has roots. And some of these comment sections sound less like healing and more like old American ghosts still talking.