Archive for July 9, 2016
LIVES THAT MATTER
With the recent event on both sides of the spectrum of gun violence I am lost in sadness and anger.
I could say I understand the sentiment behind ‘Black Lives Matter, but as a white man there is no way I can appreciate the tension the black man experiences walking or driving.
Our society has become a gun-toting society out of fear and hate. I’m sick of hearing about mass murders, people of color killed and now those with the mission to protect us slaughtered. Neither side is totally right or totally wrong. After all we are human, prone to mistakes and anger.
What it comes down to is the problem of the acceptance of guns in our country. Even when 20 six year olds were killed in Sandy Hook and robbed of their future, our government does nothing to change gun laws. The massacre in Orlando resulted in the same result. What does it take to make a change of us killing us?
There is a sickness in this country, one born hundreds of years ago and haunts us to this day. In reality, there is more than one sickness and what can we do to cure the disease our society must cure to remain the nation we once were and need to be in the future.
I pray that someday the dedication to ‘Black Lives Matter’ would transition into ‘All Lives Matter’.
Am I a dreamer, or is there hope?
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