That shooting in St. Louis had me feeling a bit sad when I found out a kid had been shot 9 times. Then I found out the "kid" was 18 and he and another person assaulted the officer before he was shot. Then I heard the witness story about him "running with his arms up." How do you even do that? THEN the looting. Why? I was going to be middle of the road and read differing opinions about this situation, then the looting. If you are really, really, really upset about an issue, do you break into a store and steal some Jordans? Seriously, I can't that community seriously. If you want people to listen to you and think of you as an innocent victim, don't do crimes for at least a week.
Then I saw this:
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/11/loot-and-rob-them-not-your-own-twitter-users-advise-black-people-to-loot-white-neighborhoods/
If you have ever read the website Lipstick Alley (shocking, you nice folks don't go look), you will see it isn't a minority opinion. No pun intended.
I didn't shoot that kid, wouldn't shoot that kid. None of the other white folks around there shot him either. Why would you want to pillage booty from innocent people who just happen to breathe your air? Now I feel like the truth will never come out because you can't trust that community. Not because of their predominate color, but because of their predominate behavior. To me isn't about race, it is about acting like crap. If you act like crap I just can't be on your side. I'm not sure if that is a personal failing or not, but it's how I feel. I feel the same way about all races/communities/areas who act like crap. I just can't get on board with that and blindly follow a weak lead even if you look like me.
We still have some stuff to solve in this country that a new pair of Jordans won't fix.
Then I saw this:
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/11/loot-and-rob-them-not-your-own-twitter-users-advise-black-people-to-loot-white-neighborhoods/
If you have ever read the website Lipstick Alley (shocking, you nice folks don't go look), you will see it isn't a minority opinion. No pun intended.
I didn't shoot that kid, wouldn't shoot that kid. None of the other white folks around there shot him either. Why would you want to pillage booty from innocent people who just happen to breathe your air? Now I feel like the truth will never come out because you can't trust that community. Not because of their predominate color, but because of their predominate behavior. To me isn't about race, it is about acting like crap. If you act like crap I just can't be on your side. I'm not sure if that is a personal failing or not, but it's how I feel. I feel the same way about all races/communities/areas who act like crap. I just can't get on board with that and blindly follow a weak lead even if you look like me.
We still have some stuff to solve in this country that a new pair of Jordans won't fix.