Im going to honestly vent here. I wrote this three days ago. I'm sick of our American excuse-filled racist cycle.
If these protest crowds could just live by totally non violence discipline as MLK did. Actual human progress is much messier. I'm confident most protestors are committed to non violence. Some who are sincere just reach that understandable ' I can't stand it anymore' moment and lose self control. They are young. Giving into rioting is commonly human but also a serious mistake. I think there are strong dark forces, here and foreign, that want to see a divided America so they intentionally agitate violence to happen.
BUT when whites get single mindedly upset when looting and burning occurs we ought not then begin verbally blaming and warning protestors in general. This is where we always get to. The blame eventually comes down on the protestors as if they are to solve this American problem they did not create. They mostly can only protest. That's their only legal significant power. They don't have the power to make the needed changes. Only the powerful majority and its institutions can sincerely decide to do that. We only started that with the 1960 Civil Rights Legislation. We seldom follow through after national incidents of police brutality and murder.
Why aren't national forces ever being called not to handle the 'problem of protestors' violence but to seriously stop the everyday systemic violence against minorities?
We just can't ever quite turn it round and hold the true empowered crimimals and white collar officials accountable and get publicly angry about that, the actual problem. The killers and abusers usually walk free with the same job whether officials or police. That is our repeating cycle.
I think I saw this pattern begin again this time with the lowest possible charge given at the start. 3rd degree murder /manslaughter. The crowd and now the nation saw and heard something more serious by the alleged killer and three other professional policeman watch and do nothing . Nothing.
If this were reversed color wise I'm confident it would be very different and a charge that matches the crimes witnessed would have come swiftly. And It's not just once , its our continuing repetition and we all in open God's Presence see it. And then always expect the victims, with such limited power, to straighten it out, make it right. The victims are regularly expected to be the example of maturity, integrity, calm and even the primary agent of change.
The whole cycle shows how irrational and truly blind inbred racism is in our land. It is our original sin and we've yet to consistently look it in the eye and take responsibility.
And sadly, present national leadership is less capable of facing this than we've had in modern times. I can't imagine it being weaker. That's why protestors and those they represent are so discouraged and nearly hopeless.
I suspect with our excuses we are nearly out of time to correct it. There is little light. I think of the imperfect mind of Evolution searching for the right thing to come forth. And evolution cares nothing about where it comes from. Evolution cares not about the demise of a nation whose citizens do not rise to their necessary ethical consciousness. Evolution, even God, will surely look elsewhere.
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