How does any of this help? Did you think shooting those officers would help? You've done the opposite now, you've just widened the divide. People were peacefully protesting against something they believed was wrong, and you had to go and turn it into a warzone. Yesterday, I had already told my mother before the shootings in Dallas that I was getting nervous. Things were flaring back up, and that means people with bad tempers starting to take things in their own hands. People just looking for problems where they don't exist. And then a man turned the world upside down. Congratulations, now I will have to deal with people who will assume I hate police. I will now have to deal with people who assume that I am a criminal. People may say that I'm overreacting, but people assumed those things about me before last night. Think of how it'll be now. All it takes is one angry person to do something rash. I don't care about Black Lives Matter, I don't care about Blue Lives Matter. I care about people, and when innocent people are being killed, it doesn't matter if they are white, black, Asian, or anything, they are people. I know everyone is angry with all the deaths recently, and you have a right to be, but please think. Please take a moment to think how you can use those emotions you feel to make a positive difference. Think on how we can get rid of this divide between the people, because as of right now, this divide is just growing.
People lack perspective. They can only see things from one side. I have never been that type of person, I have always been able to see both sides of the argument. I can see why the black community is angry about being generalized into all being criminals. That these horrible incidents keep happening again and again and no one is being punished. I can also see the police side, where they are all being generalized as bad cops. Innocent cops now are being punished for other cops' actions. Every incident is not as cut dry as both sides try to push their side of the story. It's time though to sit down and talk. Analyze the horrible events together, see what could or couldn't have been done. Stop just using your anger to harm, but to push for a safer future.
This rant though is years late. I should have said something years ago about how I was feeling. It would have changed nothing most likely, but who knows? Did Martin Luther King Jr. expect to become the leader that he is now revered as? I'm not saying that by any means I would have been some savior to our nation, but maybe, just maybe by saying something a little sooner, my message could have reached one person. And then that one person would spread it to another, and slowly but surely that message would have traveled the nation. It's a hopeless dream in a fantasy that I can only dream of, but I would give so much just to give these people peace of mind. Will anything change now? Was this drastic enough for people to open their eyes to the situation? I doubt it. People are stubborn. Once again though, I will hold on to that hopeless dream. If we all give up on our hope for a greater nation, then who is left to change it?
