If Affluenza, why not Ebpoora?

OK, you'll have to bear with me--lots of thoughts going down here, but I do have a point. 

Following a more-than-lovely Thanksgiving holiday, shared with my family, for the first time in our home, lots of disturbing news events reared their heads to squelch the warm fuzzies.

I'll recap a bit, although no one likes to focus on this stuff:

•     A local woman, poor and ill, was refused entry in a motel, despite pre-payment for same by a third party. No, not her pimp.  

•     A hit-and-run driver killed a local elderly janitor pedestrian, who was on his way to work downtown.    

•     A woman was stabbed in the back while she was scraping ice off her windshield.

•     Another woman was stabbed in the back in broad daylight near the Cinerama.         

•     Several high-profile killings of black men, for no apparent reason, other than lack of a better idea.   

And on and on. The inequity of some of these incidents pains me. I mean, if certain rich, white kids are caught driving drunk and killing people, for instance, a phrase is coined to excuse their behavior:  Affluenza. And everyone nods and smiles and says, "Well, then, that's completely understandable."

Why can't they equally coin a phrase such as Ebpoora? It seems to me that lifelong, gut-wrenching, brain-deadening poverty should be a more justifiable excuse for some folks' behavior. Instead, poverty is an excuse to be mistreated or killed.  

When constant depressing news has me stumped for writing ideas, or rather, not stumped for ideas, but preferring not to rage on and on about injustice and stupidity, etc., as I'm wont to do, I turn to my trusty DARE (Dictionary of American Regional English). I only have only one volume, D-H, but it provides a wealth of ideas. (Volume I, "Intro - C" is on my wish list).

As if channelling the rank thoughts in my brain, devilry, if you will, the first selections that caught my eye were was in the "devil" category. Pages and pages of devil-this and devil-that.  Devil in the bush. Devil's Bit. Devil's Claw. Devil's Guts. Devil's Snuffbox. Devil's Shoestring. And they're nearly all plants.  Who would have thought that mere plants could inspire such perfidy? I guess they're named for such characteristics as being sticky, stinky, poisonous, or deadly. 

Which links perfectly with what's going on in the news.  I think society has been eternally dabbed with the Devil's Paintbrush.