I’m dumbfounded. Truly. I can’t understand how anyone being 100 percent honest can’t see what I see. But maybe I’m biased you know, cause it’s me. But being me, I can’t help but think that indiscriminately killing police officers fucked.
Cops aren’t the enemy. No cop goes to work hoping to shoot a black person. It’s probably real shitty, being the ‘officer’ in the officer-involved shooting. My friends, people who put the uniform on every day to serve the public, would be devastated to be that officer.
Those same friends now have to justify a profession that requires self-sacrifice. It is as fucked as me having to justify where I was going last night when I was pulled over for no reason, given no ticket, and let go.
Cops aren’t the problem. We are. All of us. If you say believe that being white doesn’t come with privilege, you’re the problem. If you think that all cops are gunning for blacks, you’re the problem. We’re not accurately framing the conversation. All these ailments are symptoms of a far greater evil.
We are a deeply flawed society. We are held together by a firm belief that equality is a thing. It isn’t. It hasn’t been. And won’t be until we stop focusing on everything that makes us different.
Cops are extensions of a flawed society. They don’t cease being brothers, husbands, wives and daughters when they put on a badge. All that is good and all that is bad in America make up our police. And the good cops, I think, recognize it. The rest of us should, too.
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