Occasionally a Racist

In light of recent events....

...I've been holding my tongue.

In light of recent events I didn't want to piss anyone off.

In light of recent events...

...I am tired.

But when I close my eyes I see a desk fly by and a young girl cry.

A cop decide that what he knows is what best for all of those in sight.

 When I close my eyes, I see two broken people.

Two people who have been hurt, and two people who need to be healed.

See, we've created an image in our head that it's us against them...

When the reality is we are all them.

We are the hurt and the broken.

We are the sick and the lost.

Yet, we look down on those that are so much worse off.

We say things like "You're making this all up."

When the fact of the matter is our skin isn't black and we don't know what it's like to be told....

...you are only worth our skin color.

Because our skin color is white.

It's the perfect ivory get out of jail free card color.

But by all means...

...I am sure you know what it's like to hear that after years of slavery...really you're just a slave to the system.

And I am sure, you, in your perfect house, and your problems, know what it's like to not get a job because your name is "Black name."

You're angry because you don't have a perfect house, and you also feel like a slave to the system.

......

That video keeps being played over and over in my head and in my newsfeed.

And I keep reading comments about how she probably deserved it.

And I just can't do anything except cry.

We've gone through life not looking at things from another persons perspective and we pretend life is all about ourselves and our pride.

And we can't look at another human and say "I know what it's like to feel pain."

"I know what it's like to be angry."

"I know what to feel not heard."

" I know what it's like to feel rejected."

^^^^We don't experience these things the same way minorities do. But in our own deep moments can you try to imagine feeling that for GENERATIONS of an entire race???

People keep asking, what happened before the video was started that caused that scene....

DOES IT MATTER???

WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.

The deepest desire of my heart, is that if I screw up, my family, community, and friends, would treat me like a human.

She wasn't treated like she's human. She was treated like she was the scum of the earth.

It's so heart wrenching to me that in this day in age, and in the pain that we each experience that we can not imagine or listen to someone's story.

It is unbelievable to me that we still see this video and we go...."She probably deserved that."

It's unbelievable to me that in this day in age we still argue about whether or not this is warrented.

YET WE TELL OUR CHILDREN IT'S NOT OKAY TO HIT.

I am sobbing over my key board surrounded by people and people keep asking me am I okay.

No. I am not okay.

NO. I am tired.

NO. WE ARE DEBATING AND CALLING EACH OTHER NAMES BECAUSE IT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE RIGHT THAN IT IS TO SEE EACH OTHER AS PEOPLE.

Your don't get to have an opinion if your opinion comes with name calling, insults, lack of empathy or an attempt to understand each other.

What that officer did was WRONG. REGARDLESS of whether or not that young girl "asked for it."

It's time more white people spoke up and said so.

It's time more people came to each others aid.

It's time, we stopped seeing the world in literal black and white.

You are more than your skin color.

More than your mistakes.

More than your opinions.

More than your family.

More than your politics.

You are a person.

You are valuable.

I am begging you to stop, listen, empathize, and stand up for the voiceless.

Our world does not have to be like this. 

Be the voice of the revolution and the resolution.