My opinion on America's current social issues

This isn't edited and is strictly just my opinion and you aren't entitled to agree with me.

Now I'm not gonna take a side, that would only mask the meaning of what I'm trying to say and anyone who reads this and doesn't agree with my side wouldn't pay attention to my main point. A lot of the news is filled with the riots popping up in Americas cities. Now these riots are springing up to protest the killings and have brought the issue to a racial sense of view. Too many people equate what happened to the police being racially skewed. What they don't understand is that these shooting and choke outs (referencing to New York and the garner case) shouldn't be about race. By bringing race into it you make it an option. If the purpose of these riots is to stop the racial profiling and targeting than you can't talk about it. The only way to end something is to not talk about it. If stereotypes weren't a thing and we didn't think about them than we would never associate people with them. Most people can't wrap their head around that because all they know and all the realize is what they realize and they can't fathom the fact that there are things that don't have names and could one day be named. We don't and can't talk about them because to us they don't exist. If we took this concept and applied it to the racial indifference that we are facing than it would be eradicated from the world. I understand it's easier said than done, but starting it with the kids of the world and not teaching them that would start the cycle. If we leave it with the older generations slowly it will die out.

One of the other issues stemming from the current news situations is that the cops themselves are racist. This is an issue because it is putting an incident with just a few people, and escalates it to an entire force; a force that's supposed to uphold the law and protect us. If you want to make a claim that just those select cops are racist than fine, but in anything there is bad. Nothing in this world is entirely good and nothing is entirely evil. There is always good in the bad and bad in the good and the goal is to find where it all meets. Because there are a few bad cops out there doesn't mean we have an issue with every cop. Instead why don't we focus on weeding out the bad cops and fixing it? Why not instead of immediately stereotyping and complaining we do something about it? We have this inherent need to complain but we never seem to do anything about it. If we truly cared we do something about it. If you don't do anything about it you don't truly care. And I'm assuming most of you are going to say I don't care about this because what am I doing exactly? Well I’m getting my opinion out there in hopes that it will reach others and branch my ideas out to many people. The only for me to fight this battle is through these words.

Reviews

[Marie]

I don't follow you. What exactly are we supposed to do about this problem? If the way to end something is to not talke about it, then let's not. People kill people for a variety of reasons, and insisting that those reasons are racist is only going to make things worse. On the ohter hand, the Civil Rights movement had to start somewhere, and it started with the words of Dr. Martng Luther King.

[Ryan Perillo]

I understand that I wrote this late one night and didn't do much of an edit to it. But what I'm trying to say is that we can't automaticly assume that because something involves a white and black man that it is racist. I understand there are racist people out there but you can't take certain small incidents and stereotype all of the police force for it. We are at a time that we should be past this issue, and we should live by Martin Luther's words that we are all equal.

[Marie]

I nderstand what you're trying to say. I never write social commentary myself. It's not that I don't care. No, come to think of it, I really don't care.

[Ryan Perillo]

Well if you don't care that's fine with me. I do care and wanted to simply voice my opinion.