by TL
“Let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves.” – Barack Obama
I agree with Obama’s quote. Participating in violence will only make a situation worse. All the protests that have been going on violently doesn’t make anything better. Not for the community, not for us, especially not for the children.
If we want everyone to cooperate, police and civilians, black people, white people, white children, black children. This isn’t 1964. We have laws that say people shouldn’t be judged for the color of their skin, yet people do it anyways. In the short of it, we are all human.
At the end of the day, police officers still take their pants off one leg at a time. Same with the president. Same for the court people. We are all human. We all work at the same time. We have two legs, two arms, eyebrows (unless you’ve shaved them).
What I’m trying to say is we all have a purpose, so instead of wasting it on something that involves destruction, why don’t we use it on something that involves peace? Something that can encourage hope. We can come and work together on a mural or something.
But all this hate isn’t getting anyone, anywhere quicker. It starts with us. The community is where we have to start. Actually, we all have to play a part in it. So I guess it starts with you or me. We all have been involved in violence at some age.
Either by abuse and drugs, drinking, fighting, protesting. It all just happens at some period of time. It’s whether or not you let that destruction, the hate, define who you are. You can either just let that be the past or you can continue to go down the road.