I don't condone the riots in Baltimore. Why should I? The cops are supposed to be the good guys right? We should never rise up against those that we pay to serve and protect us. All of us right? They are supposed to protect everyone regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or whether we still bite our finger nails aren't they? Why should I condone people that feel threatened and feel the need to fight back? It's not like we live in a society that tells us we should put up with bullying. Do we?
Everyone has an opinion on the riots. Some say it's deplorable. Some say it was necessary. Some even call them animals no better than simians. Guess what everyone? We are all animals. We are all simians. Just like all animals we are programmed to act violent when backed into a corner; especially when our calls for help fall on seemingly deaf ears. What choice does an animal have in such a situation than to put up a fight; especially against an authority that they do not trust or respect? Can you blame them?
Can you blame those that take the brunt of an authority that claims to protect and serve the people yet only seems interested in doing so for themselves and their own kind? Can you blame them for fighting back against an authority that does not have their well being in mind? Some will say its not about discrimination. I'll say for them to look at the statistics. For that authority the statistical minority makes up their economic majority. They are targeted because they are vilified by a system that has victimized them for centuries. Justice is always a swim against the current but for many the stream is dammed up before they even get a chance to swim.
Ferguson. Brevard. North Charleston. All have had instances of the justice system failing them. The only reason North Charleston hasn't seen the violence of the other two is because the perpetrator was caught with blood on his hands for the nation and world to see.What if there was no video evidence? Would Charleston still be as calm and quiet while Baltimore burned tonight?
Would entitlement alone protect the streets of North Charleston or would it gave way to human nature boiling over like it did in the city of Ravens and Orioles? The entitlements have to go. No one has a right to impinge on the freedom of another. Everyone has the right to due process and being innocent till proven guilty no matter the precedents of their lives. Only when those that we trust to do everything in their power to protect and serve decide to actually do so for EVERYONE will we actually have some progress. Only then will we be able to change. As of now we are all just hairless simians that are prone to act like those that we judge. #chs on't condone the riots in #Baltimore. Why should I? The cops are supposed to be the good guys right? We should never rise up against those that we pay to serve and protect us. All of us right? They are supposed to protect everyone regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or whether we still bite our finger nails aren't they? Why should I condone people that feel threatened and feel the need to fight back? It's not like we live in a society that tells us we should put up with bullying. Do we?
Everyone has an opinion on the riots. Some say it's deplorable. Some say it was necessary. Some even call them animals no better than simians. Guess what everyone? We are all animals. We are all simians. Just like all animals we are programmed to act violent when backed into a corner; especially when our calls for help fall on seemingly deaf ears. What choice does an animal have in such a situation than to put up a fight; especially against an authority that they do not trust or respect? Can you blame them?
Can you blame those that take the brunt of an authority that claims to protect and serve the people yet only seems interested in doing so for themselves and their own kind? Can you blame them for fighting back against an authority that does not have their well being in mind? Some will say its not about discrimination. I'll say for them to look at the statistics. For that authority the statistical minority makes up their economic majority. They are targeted because they are vilified by a system that has victimized them for centuries. Justice is always a swim against the current but for many the stream is dammed up before they even get a chance to swim.
Ferguson. Brevard. North Charleston. All have had instances of the justice system failing them. The only reason North Charleston hasn't seen the violence of the other two is because the perpetrator was caught with blood on his hands for the nation and world to see.What if there was no video evidence? Would Charleston still be as calm and quiet while Baltimore burned tonight?
Would entitlement alone protect the streets of North Charleston or would it gave way to human nature boiling over like it did in the city of Ravens and Orioles? The entitlements have to go. No one has a right to impinge on the freedom of another. Everyone has the right to due process and being innocent till proven guilty no matter the precedents of their lives. Only when those that we trust to do everything in their power to protect and serve decide to actually do so for EVERYONE will we actually have some progress. Only then will we be able to change. As of now we are all just hairless simians that are prone to act like those that we judge.
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