I hope these protests continue (peacefully) to force the conversation. We need to talk about oppression and the subjugation of our citizens. The pressure is bubbling the lid.
I'm more worried that the pressure isn't. It's isolated and contained for the time being. Anon is doing their work, and peaceful protests are happening. These are good things, but I just...I'm sick and tired of not seeing changes made. Get video cameras on police officers. Have transparency in our law enforcement. Hold criminal abuse of authority accountable.
It doesn't feel like it's happening, and there are people getting killed for that lack of change. The pressure isn't where it needs to be for something to take place, because a good chunk of America doesn't care. They don't care that a kid gets killed by a law enforcement officer for no reason...probably just a mistake in their eyes. Or a reaction by the officer because he was being "threatened" and that makes the killing justified. They don't care that whites are stopped and held accountable for actions and are perceived as non-threatening FAR LESS than other races because, well, it doesn't affect them.
The don't care because they look at a reaction, like a riot, and assume that the kid that got shot is just a representation of that action, not the other way around. They don't see the protests, they see riots. They don't see people, they see thugs. And they won't care until it's too late for them, if it ever is.
This whole bloody thing makes me sad. We still treat people differently based on their skin color, and it will take generations to right that. People will have to get old and die, move around the country, integrate with different geological, sociological and socioeconomic areas and demographics of society and then, maybe, we can stop systematically treating one person different from another because of their skin.
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