Racism

The nation is in a big turmoil over the issue of racism lately due to the case in Missouri where a white officer shot a black male that was a suspect in robbery (unknown to the officer at the time), but when approached by this officer in his cruiser, started tussling with the officer inside his car trying to get the officer's gun.  I don't know why we have to go back to a day and age that we have worked so hard to overcome.  I have to wonder who is sitting on the sidelines and waiting for the next big story to break that involves two different races.  Why does the race issue have to be brought up at all?  The other day here in Atlanta, Georgia we had a case where 2 officers were shot by 2 suspects that were attempting to flee a home invasion.  The officers were African-american as pictured below and the suspects were also African-american.  Why is that not brought up by the NAACP?

Is it really the fact that all were a African-american that is the reason that it isn't an issue?  Are you kidding?

What about the case in Cleveland where a 12 year old boy was shot by an officer after waving a what looked like a real gun around in a play park, but the gun turned out to be a toy gun with the orange tip gone.  Yes, it was an African-american boy and yes, it was a white officer; but you look at the guns below and tell me if you can tell the difference and how long are you going to take to decide the difference?


If you take more than a couple seconds to decide which one of these you are dealing with, you may be the one in the hospital hoping to live.  It will be your family that will be yelling foul and wondering why nothing more can be done to the culprits.

We need to protect our officers at all cost because without law and order, we will really be going back to a day and age that we don't want.  I assure you, racism is nothing compared to the day and age you are trying to take us back to.  You will only wish you can call racism if we go back the day when there was no law and order and when if someone thought you had done something wrong, you got hung or shot for it ...  no trial, no jury, no attorneys ... just vigilante justice.  Do we really want to go back to that time period?

Yes, it is very sad when we lose loved ones to officers that over react, but honestly, if they treated every case with caution, they will get killed.  There won't be anyone protesting that they were killed by a suspect that was out to hurt them and even if there was, there won't be any amount of protests that will bring these officers back to us.  We all make mistakes and it is sad when mistakes lead to the loss of lives, but if we go back to day and age when we just shot and killed the one we thought had wronged us, we will all suffer for it.  Please, while you sit on that side line ready to stand up and protest when the next big story hits the wire, at the same time, be ready to look at the situation from an objective point of view and give an honest assessment of the situation and think what you would have done in the same situation.