Uh, Lew. . . If you actually read Porgy and Bess—the nuns taught you how to read, when you were a Catholic-school B-ball star, right?—Sportin' Life was a liar who represented the devil. How appropriate that you're quoting him as your authority.
It must be frightening for some folks to be both ignorance t and so miseducated that reality is always in conflict with their beliefs and expected outcomes.
If all my life I was told gravity pulls things upwards and then one day I saw something fall off a shelf, I’d be perturbed and puzzled by it. Likewise, they see cops killing black people who are assaulting them and they can’t fathom why cops killed them for “no reason”.