This is where my initial statement of how you can't really fight hate with hate matters...
if you fight hatred with more hatred you become the people who hurt you. It reverses, and it really does matter, because if you cannot remove the prejudice from your lens, how do you expect the person on the other side to clean their lens too? I would love to live in a world where we realized...being hateful to others gets us nowhere. It doesn't do anything good, just, or right. We should fight hate with LOVE... War with peace, anger with gentleness. Obviously not every single battle can be won... but hating is drinking poison and expecting someone else to suffer. No matter how many rights you give, how much you do, it will never be enough if they are still hateful. Same with any of the movements, with any of the things. All this has done is throw kerosene on an already burning flame...it's only bigger...and I don't want to see the country that allows so much freedom to fall due to this level of...division stirred by people who use hate as a means to fight.
I also just have...an issue with so many basically saying fuck the police, stop funding the police. Not. every. cop. IS BAD. What's the alternative? If you have no one keeping laws in place, you have anarchy. So anyone who doesn't want police basically wants anarchy...
but [MENTION=9251]Jonny[/MENTION] made an amazing point about how a little love, and empathy, goes a LONG way. I remember how terrified I was at my first car accident, and the person I accidentally collided with? she was so kind to me. The officer who came was very patient with me at the time. I remember when I went to the ER when I was going to kill myself at 16 and the officer wouldn't let my parents take me home because he had another kid before he trusted when they said I was fine, let me leave, and the next day he really did it. These cops are not all bad and some of them see and deal with really awful things. If anything, these officers also need understanding. Some just need accountability like this guy, but maybe these cops also need more help with therapies and etc. for the traumas they have to deal with on their jobs too. There are racists but there are also people who just snap. I think cops are literally snapping right now too, because no matter what they do they're wrong anymore. I encourage everyone here to find empathy for all the parties involved and try to have understanding, but also have the wisdom to acknowledge something was wrong without being completely spiteful.
I mentioned in my blog before how most black people have been very kind to me. I did have one who said he wanted to leave the state because "there's too many white people here". And I cannot imagine how this helps any issues. You cannot complain about judging people by race and turn around and judge them by race too. Why would you want to inflict that onto someone else? That's what I mean. Do not fight the hate with more hatred. It is sad. And really this just overshadows a great issue, which is poverty. Poverty is so hard, and poverty becomes like a lifestyle that's hard to get out of.
