Tookie's social hegemony

Hegemony roughly equates to one group's oppression over another group, usually along political, racial, or gender lines.
What is so fascinating about this concept, hegemony, is the role that the Oppressed play in facilitating their own oppression (that they have so bought into the system that any attempt to break free is considered deviating from the norm and somehow wrong).
For example, classrooms tend to favor and reward competitive/aggressive (i.e. masculine) discourse practices (the person who speaks up, who interjects, who adds to the conversation, etc), which males tend to display to a much greater extent than females, who tend to be collaborative rather than competitive in their discourse practices.
Now, studies have also shown that when a girl tries to speak out, other girls will monitor her, ostricize her, and exclude her because she is breaking a social norm that they unconsciouslu regard as immutable and permanent (despite the fact that it serves to oppress them as well). We're talking straight up Jungian shadow work.

So, why is this interesting?????? Well, usually hegemony applies across racial or gender lines. With Tookie, it seems humanistic (settle down, I'm sure you're screaming race. Well so am I, the fucking human race). We can't believe that a man can change for the better. It's in our fundamental nature to kill him because we cannot imagine him to be breaking free of the social chains binding him to his hatred and self-loathing. We think he could not change because we think we cannot change and thus monitor ourselves for deviant behavior [such as finding love in our hearts despite the rage surrounding us, finding meaning in our lives loving others, having the strength to change, to see that we are bigger than ourselves). Did Tookie kill those people. I do not know. Even if he didn't, he certainly killed others and behaved in ways that led to a lot of pain. But he found his heaven in the worst hell in this country and for that we killed him.
I mourn his loss.
I mourn humanity's loss.
We've lost our way, dangerously so, to the point that we cannot open our hearts to someone who opened his.