"It's unfortunate but violence works." I remember when the guest lecturer visiting my class uttered those words when talking about changing the world and why things happen the way they do. And her words, while morbid, were true. This is why the victors write history (except in the case of the Haitian Revolution, but that is a story for another day).

So now that I see police officers falling at the hands of the oppressed masses pushed to the edge, I again think about those words. Of course, I am against targeting police officers, just like I am against the police murdering young black men. I do not want anyone to die unjustly and violently. But I believe this point must be made: Countless black men and women have died at the hands of the police, and nothing changes.

Those officers would be put on paid leave, the family of the victim might receive a settlement, but no true justice was ever served. AmeriKKKa does not care about black people...but they love their police officers. So now that it seems that their beloved police officers are unsafe and under siege, maybe things will change, not because black people actually matter, but because police officers matter, and in order to keep them safe, we must appease the few black people who have (maybe justifiably) resorted to violence.

I hate this idea.

I hate the violence.

I hate that things have to come to this.

The BlackLivesMatter movement was and still is a peaceful movement, so we must not make the mistake to say that they are the cause of this retaliation against the police. BlackLivesMatter is just as against this violence against police as white America is because they do not use violence to further their cause. But those lone revolutionaries targeting police are not crazed in their approach.

No one should have to die, but we cannot deny that change has not come through the deaths of innocent black people. I hate to admit this, but since these few incidents of violence against police, I have been certain that some kind of change will come sooner than later. I only pray that these changes will benefit the black community rather than hurt them more. The establishment always has a method by which to further oppress dissenters, especially when those dissenters are minorities.

While I feel sorry for the police officers who have been killed in cold blood and I worry about their families, I also can't help but worry about what will happen to the black community as a whole because of the violence. It is unfortunate that a white life is more valuable than a black life in AmeriKKKa, but that is the way things are, so I fear that with this increase in violence against police, the cases of police brutality against black people will just continue to worsen.

I don't even know what to say about the state of race relations in this country but something needs to change soon because I am tired of the death and the pain.

I pray that changes come before any more people, black people and police officers included, are killed unjustly.