So she survived last night, has a laundry list of felonies, bit a deputy -- STILL doesnt justify the ridiculous attitude on my feed last night. I saw a lot of young college students my age post statuses hoping for her death so theyre not inconvenienced by traffic. Many of these same students showed their support for the Ferguson/Mike Brown protests. If we expect the police to empathize with us and to serve us (as is their job), the least we can do is reciprocate the same thing as a community, to our community. This means NOT deeming whether someone is worthy of their life, whether the acts they committed in the last 24 hours invalidate their right to life, but rather giving that last chance of hope. So many people claim to be colorblind towards racism, claiming to only see the HUMAN race (which is so damn stupid already but thats another conversation), but when asked to show compassion for this person (in the form of not wishing for their death), the response was i dont know anything about her. How can we so casually brush off a fellow human like that? Im not saying any of us should have driven over there and begged her or anything, but it takes effort from the wrong side of the emotional spectrum to post a status justifying why you want this person to go kill herself already. How much of a relation does it take for us to even care about a fellow human? Are we only gonna help an old lady carry her groceries if shes the same ethnicity as us? The same gender? Only if they wear the same clothes? If they have no tattoos or piercings? Or are there some lines we need to draw where we gotta suck up our prejudices and annoyances and realize that we have an opportunity to be the better person and help someone out? Not out of obligation or in seeking a reward, but BECAUSE that person is a fellow human. Ill be back with traffic at 6. /rant
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:32:25 +0000
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