I'm not butthurt. I'm saddened over the loss of decency in this nation. Even if Mr Floyd was guilty of trying to use a fake $20 to purchase cigarettes, he did not deserve death. No trial, no jury, no presumption of innocence until PROVEN guilty in a court of law. Instead, killed on the street for the world to see.
I stand for law and order. As a black man I do not support crimes, looting, burning, destruction of property. I also see, live, how that could easily be me or someone I love.
The pain you see manifesting itself all over this world has been going on for decades, centuries. The oppression of classes or groups of people still remain today, even after slavery has ended. This deep seeded hatred, intolerance, indifference to fellow human beings is heart breaking. This pain that has been endured even before my lifetime is rearing its ugly head once again.
You have a group of people that have systematically been kept down for years. With nothing left, no jobs, 41 million unemployed, cities shut down due to the virus, racism is alive and well. I've even been at work, in my browns, delivering PPE to the police station itself, wearing the required mask, to have a white officer "joke" Oh I thought you were here to rob us. This from the ones assigned to protect and serve the community. I live with the uneasiness of whether I'm at work or off, to have police look at me as if I'm a criminal. To have the fear that if I make the slightest error, that could be my life or freedom.
So yes, those things do break my heart. To hear those like yourself, rejoicing at the death of a human being, regardless of what crimes he may have committed in the past, is disheartening.
