This is not an example of how to behave when you think the people of this country are against you. I think that a good many people in the U.S.A. have bent over backwards to treat all people like they matter, no matter what color they are. This doesn't show appreciation for anything.
This behavior most certainly won't make people think better of you and whether that cop did the right thing. You don't take a bad situation and make it worse by doing things like this.
There has been so much bad behavior in the area of Ferguson, not to mention some other areas lately, to protest, it is absolutely unbelievable. The media usually only manages to tell the parts of the story they want tho. They do not, at any point, tell the rest of the story. Maybe they should start. By rabble rousing and race baiting, they are not making a bad situation better or helping it in any way.
Last but not least, the most guilty of the race-baiters are Sharpton, Obama and Holder. These men have high profiles in this country. And, what are they doing to make it better for "their" people in this country? Not a darned thing. These men should be ashamed of themselves, big time. Two of the three, anyway, are educated men. They should know better. They could have done a lot to make things better for people of all colors while in office. Instead, they choose to be racist loud mouths that do nothing but instill hatred and bigotry all over the country. Intelligent people should be very disgusted with them for their behaviors.
I have known a lot of people over the years. I have met people from a number of countries and I have known people of several colors and races. They were all decent, hard working people. They didn't sit around and whine about how they have been treated over the years. People, history can show you a lot of things. You can either learn from it .......or not. This has been a good example of how not to behave. Racism is never going to be pretty. However, as I see it, the most of it is coming from the blacks these days. They seem to be the most racist persons around.
I hope I live to see the day when people can treat people decently, as people! Not as what color they are....but people. When we start doing that, we may have a chance to make this country a decent place again.....for everyone. People can stand up for themselves and say....I did that!.....and be proud of whatever it was they did.
Very well written, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think you need to walk in their shoes before you hand out judgement.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I try to not be too judgmental. But, these days, everyone is so busy being PC so as not to offend someone, or, if we are white, be called a racist....we don't get anywhere on issues. I have worked with a contractor who was black, who got by with more crap than you can even imagine...because of that. A white person would have been long gone. It had nothing to do with me as I wasn't his boss and his actions spoke for themselves. He was eventually fired. But, he inconvenienced and delayed a lot of things before that happened not to mention costing us money. The media makes things worse because they never put out the "whole story." They talk about the part that gets people riled up and they don't paint a true picture of what is going on. These days, people don't even get hired because of what they know or what they can do often times. They get hired because they need someone of a certain sex or color to fill a quota. Being called names day in and day out for something we have never done gets old. In our community, we had a black sheriff for years. People loved him. He was fair and did his job. But, the point of this was to make people think. That needs to start happening.
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