Is anyone else's heart heavy with what seems to be new tragedies every day? Right in our own country? I've written about this issue before, right after the news of the Orlando shootings. But when I woke up this morning to read about five police officers sniped during a protest in Dallas, my heart broke. Not because of the differences, or that it made the news any worse. My heart breaks anytime an innocent life is lost, no matter what race, color, gender, or religion. So no, I do believe police brutality is prominently present in the United States, and even other countries. I do believe that we still have honorable policemen and women working here too. I believe in the several different races America is home to, but I also believe that each race has evil people in it, capable of doing harm. I am not turning an eye to the injustices in this country, but I also turn my eye to the belief that the doings of one person seem to represent an entire race. Because what would that belief make us? As evil as the person who committed the crime.
You all use social media to your advantage, in the way of spreading and telling your stories and stories of other's injustices. But you guys also tear each other down for different beliefs? And fail to see that this is our self-destruction as a society? This isn't a matter of black versus white, cop against criminal, it's about right versus wrong.
Right versus wrong. That is it. It infuriates me, that as a society, we can't see what we're doing to ourselves? We have a world of information and the capability of sharing that information with virtually anyone, in the palm of our hands. And we misuse it. We misuse it as much as we possibly can. We say hurtful and degrading things to each other, twist stories to form our prejudices and project our beliefs on others. Whenever you justify violence of any race against another, it is wrong. Whenever you justify violence towards a group for the actions of a few, is it wrong. Whenever you justify lives lost for the race that the life was a part of, it is wrong. Whenever you see past the concept of right versus wrong, it is wrong.
So what do we have to do? How can we stop this monster of negativity that's prominent in every life? It's every negative thing you see on our phone, every injustice you see in real life, and every prejudice the people in your life hold. We have so many opportunities every day to fight it. Use your social media for good, share stories of wrongdoing and corruption, fight against every wrong act you see. But never stray from the concept of merely right, versus wrong. We cannot achieve peace until we see past every single skin color, race, belief, group, and see only the right and wrong. We have the ability to change the world for good, let's not put it to waste.
