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In a nut shell....My thoughts on what is happening now in Baltimore/World Wide. First and foremost I am not condoning or supporting looting or violence in any way, but I also do not condone or support unlawful murder. The fact that the Black Community has to still protest, march, riot and die to bring attention (not change) to a problem, still in 2015 is a problem in itself. "Let's talk about the cause (systematic) and stop focusing on the effect (rioting, protesting, etc.). The only way to fix any problem is to get to the root of it. You don’t cut down a tree by removing the leaves or the branches you must remove the stump. The fact that CNN and other people in America are labeling those who are rioting and protesting as animals, thugs, criminals and “gangstas” is just distasteful and disgusting. The fact that people are trying to tie in Freddie Gray’s past as some way to justify his death is also sickening. These same people CNN label as thugs and animals are the same people that our judicial system have failed, these people are the product of a system that has failed them with education, proper housing, proper funding in their community and the resources to obtain and take advantage of the few opportunities they have been afforded. To everyone saying violence doesn’t solve anything, burning and killing won’t fix/change anything I challenge you to tell me “America’s” history and how it gained its freedom without talking about bloodshed and violence. By no means am I saying violence is the answer but what do you do when peace doesn’t bring about change? What do you do when promises aren’t fulfilled and lies start to become your truth? What do you do when you’re told to wait on and trust in a system that wasn’t built to protect or serve you? You rebel. Our system is not imperfect, is it perfect and works perfectly for who and what it was designed to work for. I understand the anger, I understand the pain, I understand the aggression. This is bigger than Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and many more; this is about 400+ years of injustice, this is about 400+ years of broken promises, this is about 400+ years of being patient, this is about 400+ years of blood, sweat and tears being shed building a land of freedom that we have no freedom in. When Kentucky burns their own campus, flip cars, and break windows after losing a basketball game, they’re just angry fans. When the African American community burns their communities, flips cars and breaks windows after losing lives, their ignorant misinformed thugs, animals and "gangstas." Now a wise man once said “He who shows no mercy, is shown no mercy.” With that being said you can’t tell a people who were violated and built the very foundation that this country sits on that being violent will get them nothing when everything they’ve seen and witnessed contradicts that.
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