https://youtube/watch?v=TZxEyoplYbI Its hard to watch these still. I cant imagine what it would be like to live in a community where your rights arent enforced, where you are treated like a second class citizen for the color of your skin, where youre afraid for your life when around those in power because your civil rights essentially dont exist. Im empathetic of both sides. It would be hard to be a cop. A lot of people are just trying to do the right thing, and police are also just people who are trying to make ends meat for their families. I am understanding of that. We live in a backwards place right now. It isnt required that you have the highest IQ, or a strong background understanding of people (AKA a psych degree) to become a cop, and thats what makes the hierarchy between police and citizens in those lower income/ higher crime rate neighborhoods so potentially dangerous. The cops are scared, and thats scary. They are racist because they dont have the educational training to differentiate between someone who is potentially dangerous, and someone who is just walking in the street with the same colored skin as someone who is dangerous. They just arent educated enough, because its not even required to be. Then we have fear in the hands of someone who holds all the power, and there is nothing scarier than someone who is powerful who is also scared shitless. The part that gets me the most about all of this is these people are barely even angry, they are just defeated. Theyre like what do we do now? I guess this is the part where we throw something and burn a car so the media can have something to use against us later, write us off as unimportant, and forget about us again. They arent even enthusiastic about it, because it seems its never going to change, and they know it. It is sad. I am enthusiastic about being a woman and a feminist because I kind of see things changing for us. At least there is a platform in place for some girls to be raised in a wealthy environment, go to a good school and defeat the obstacles that are in our way. Slowly but surely I have had more and more opportunity to be blessed with the sight over the horizon of us rising up and achieving equality. But all of these killings lately, and no justice, if I were there in that community, if I werent white, I dont know what I would do. I think I would lay down on the floor too for a minute, put my hands in the air and surrender. Im not saying I give up, and Im not saying they should. Im just attempting to empathize- something I cant really do even if I try. I dont know what its like to feel no hope, or to feel defeated. America only cares about race when it wants to. Its easy for it to see black people when it wants to racially profile someone, or when it wants to get away with murdering someone, but when a community is crying out and begging for help, needing welfare and education so the crime rate can go down and so they can seek safety in their own communities, it turns itself away and pretends not to see. For a place with so much racial profiling, and injustice for minorities, it sure is good at not seeing black people. I guess America just picks and chooses when to be blind. How convenient.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:30:35 +0000
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