As a college student at a liberal arts school, I have been a member of countless heated discussions centered around social justice and what seems to have become a pattern in our current society. I've heard plenty of arguments that white people are actually the ones that don't have it fair - that "playing the slave card" isn't relevant anymore because slavery has been over for many years now. I have watched classmates cry over the injustice they see, crying because they are afraid of the police.

I am tired of hearing about racial profiling. I do not want to discuss whether or not it is real any further. I have no desire to attempt to solve the mysteries of whether or not the race of the men like Alton Sterling or Philando Castile have anything to do with the fact that they are brutally murdered for what seems to be no good reason.

Whether or not you believe in racism and that it rears its ugly head as minorities are killed every single day by those they trust to protect them- whether or not you love or hate the police- you must believe that something is wrong with the pictures that are presented before us more and more frequently.

Whether or not you believe that Alton Sterling or Philando Castile were killed because of the color of their skin, we should all be able to agree that they did not deserve to die the way that they did. Whether or not you believe the police officers in Dallas were murdered because they were white - you should be able to agree that they did not deserve to die.

We should be able to love and respect one another. Things should not become "us versus them". We should be able to live in harmony with those different from us, whether they are of a different race, gender, political background, sexual orientation, or age. We should not live in fear of each other, regardless of the occupation we hold or the color of our skin.

It seems like the amount time between notorious cases like that of Micheal Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner have only grown closer as the body count of these victims of brutality grows higher. After horrible events occur, our nation as a whole tends to participate in a serious debate, primarily via social media and hashtags. These debates generally focus on whether or not racism is still alive and well in this country.

Along the way people will begin to place blame. We venture to whether or not the police have the best interest of the general public in mind. Men and women who are just trying to do their job and protect civilians end up injured or dead at the hands of people who are angry with the way our world is. If it's not the police it's white people as a whole. It's a never ending cycle fueled by the press and the stubbornness of members of society to cling to what they know.

There are bad people all over the world, but an entire group is not responsible for one person's mistake. All police are not bad. All minorities are not criminals. All white people are not racists. The sooner we learn to respect everyone, regardless of whether or not we are the same, the sooner we will live in a society that feels safe again.

Black lives matter.

Blue lives matter.

All lives matter... Things will not get better until we start acting like it.