Context...I was raised in a very diverse community...teenager in early 70's. I remember well 1968. I saw firsthand how my friends were treated different than I was. I saw a black friend get beaten up by older teenagers when I was about 12...just because he came to town on Saturday morning to play ball with me and some other friends. He was invited. This is an event I have never gotten over. Neither did my friend..he was forever changed and so was our relationship.
So....I am truly empathetic to the cause and by being a white man, I know I don't understand, so I am looking for understanding.
I don't think this country is a racist country. I say this...because we have laws to protect certain classes of people. I do know there are racist people in the country. I don't know if the man killed in MInneapolis was killed because he was black or he was killed just because the police who did this were evil, or they were idiots, or both. I know it was maybe the worst thing I have ever witnessed on film and/or in person. I wanted to jump in the screen and knock that officer off his neck. My mind went back to the event I witnessed with my friend at 12...where I have had a lifetime of regrets for not trying to do something to stop the abuse.
What I do know is that MIchael Brown was the wrong cause. Those protests were wrong based on the events that really happened. But...the truth did not out until later...yet some don't want to believe what really happened.
This horrible event in Minneapolis is the right cause...........but the policeman was arrested and charged.
So what purpose is being served now? What more can authorities do?
I know most will say it is to make sure this won't happen again. But that is on individuals who commit the acts...not on the system. Burning, looting, and protesting can change laws but we already have te laws...but it is not going to prevent a random act by a random individual.
In my mind...the protests would be appropriate about the events in Georgia where elected officials were going to let something slide.
So why?
So....I am truly empathetic to the cause and by being a white man, I know I don't understand, so I am looking for understanding.
I don't think this country is a racist country. I say this...because we have laws to protect certain classes of people. I do know there are racist people in the country. I don't know if the man killed in MInneapolis was killed because he was black or he was killed just because the police who did this were evil, or they were idiots, or both. I know it was maybe the worst thing I have ever witnessed on film and/or in person. I wanted to jump in the screen and knock that officer off his neck. My mind went back to the event I witnessed with my friend at 12...where I have had a lifetime of regrets for not trying to do something to stop the abuse.
What I do know is that MIchael Brown was the wrong cause. Those protests were wrong based on the events that really happened. But...the truth did not out until later...yet some don't want to believe what really happened.
This horrible event in Minneapolis is the right cause...........but the policeman was arrested and charged.
So what purpose is being served now? What more can authorities do?
I know most will say it is to make sure this won't happen again. But that is on individuals who commit the acts...not on the system. Burning, looting, and protesting can change laws but we already have te laws...but it is not going to prevent a random act by a random individual.
In my mind...the protests would be appropriate about the events in Georgia where elected officials were going to let something slide.
So why?
