Kanye West got up at the VMA awards show and launched into a pity-fueled diatribe of criticism about why his favorite black artists didn’t get awards.
Black Lives Matters ladies wrenched the microphone from Bernie Sanders at a political rally where people came to hear him – not a couple of rude black women.
A Sandra Bland supporter recently told a reporter that “all white people should be killed.” Gee, that’s helpful.
The Harris County cop shooting in Texas hasn’t evoked much sympathy from the black community. No condemnation of the shooter that I have found. Didn’t see hardly any black people at the memorial.
No doubt there have been shootings and beatings by police that were evil, and unwarranted police brutality is a fact and must be condemned and prosecuted when those incidents are revealed. Police must behave lawfully and with restraint.
There are grievances on both sides. There are also mistaken impressions at times.
Medical examiner’s results indicated that Michael Brown was charging Darren Wilson when he was shot. It was determined by the investigators to have been a justified shooting based on self-defense. However, Wilson was dismissed from the police department and now lives in fear in another town where he has trouble finding employment.
Some idiot just gave a Nazi salute in court after being convicted of murder in the Jewish Center shooting.
There’s a lot of self-pity and nursing of hurt feelings going on in America. Everyone needs to chill out a little – including Kanye – and smoke a peace pipe or something. Take a deep breath. Treat people like you want to be treated. Be nice.
The human race is a violent species. We now have the capability to blow up the whole planet and everything on it. I think that’s very likely because tribes and countries just can’t get along. Greed, prejudice and stubborn tribalism rule. We all need to adjust our thinking and behave ourselves. Rudeness and whining turns people off. People don’t listen when you shout, they only hear your anger.
Nursing hurt feelings over slavery is pointless. Today’s Americans had nothing to do with slavery conducted decades ago. We can’t go back and fix that. So stop whining about that and focus on making your own life as productive and fulfilling as possible.
I don’t hear Asians lamenting the extremely hard life their ancestors endured during early America. They were badly mistreated and exploited during the building of the railroad and the settlement of the West.
White people protested, marched and were killed while trying to register black voters. Working together, we changed laws and lives.
The law is meant to facilitate peace in our society. Without law, there are no boundaries for people who foment trouble and threaten the safety and well-being of others.
I was moved by Rodney King’s haunting appeal: “Why can’t we all just get along?”
– Sandra Gill
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