Five-year-old Cannon Hinnant will never have the chance to grow up. He will never even have the chance to go into kindergarten. Cannon’s life was cut tragically short because someone five times his age came up to him with a gun and shot him in the back of the head.

An adult killing a child with such disregard for life—people should be angry. People should be outraged. Who in their right mind would find executing someone so innocent to be acceptable? America doesn’t condone the execution of children—that would make us a third-world country.

People also showed anger and outrage when George Floyd’s life was cut tragically short in May. The thought of a police officer exerting his power over someone weaker is disturbing. The act is despicable.

The strong overpowering the weak. That is where the tragic deaths of Cannon Hinnant and George Floyd show similarity.

Black vs. white. That is where some people believe the deaths are also similar, albeit with a flipping of the script. Instead of a black life being snuffed out at the hands a white person like the George Floyd case, Cannon Hinnant was a white life taken by a black person. Some folks are convinced that the two cases are the same—racially motivated murder—and that’s the reason we should come forward with righteous fury.

It’s not, though. That’s an easy cop-out. We use race as a justification for our outrage when we really sympathize with the underdog, the weakling. We’re very good at getting angry at the injustices in the world, but like a drunken redneck at a shooting range, we often miss the mark on what angers us.

When you look at the Black Lives Matter movement, you see a bunch of people angry at injustice. George Floyd is just the latest face of that injustice. Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery—if you go far enough back, you’ve got Trayvon Martin. The members are angry about their black brethren being killed, but if you look carefully at each of those cases, their common thread is a strong person destroying a weaker prey.

That’s what makes us so furious about Cannon being dead. The worst thing a 5-year-old can do is destroy a wall with the deadly weapon of crayons. The boy wasn’t a threat to anyone. Folks on Facebook have been making Cannon’s death about racism, but the core issue is power—who has it and who doesn’t.

This is why all lives matter. When it comes right down to it, not all black people are innocent, and not all white people are evil, sadistic and drunk on power. Anyone can be a victim in the wrong circumstance, and anyone can be a predator.

We can be angry about racism and vow to stop it, but it’s not the end-all, be-all of the overall problem. George Floyd could have died at the hands of black officers, and Cannon Hinnant could have been shot in the head by a white man. Those acts would still be just as wrong, but race would not be a factor. The power is where our focus and our ire should be, not the skin color of the person wielding the power.

Protests and marches should continue regarding George Floyd’s death, because America still has a problem with oppression. We should also be taking to the streets to express our anger about Cannon Hinnant’s death, as it should never be acceptable to harm a child. Without focus and aiming in the right place, however, the problems we hope to eradicate will continue to flourish and find new victims.

We have every right to be angry at the abuse of power—but let’s not get it twisted.