Thursday, December 4, 2014

I Don'T Want...

I don't want to see businesses burn. I don't want to see property destroyed.

But you know what I REALLY don't want?
I don't want young black men gunned down for not being respectful enough to white cops.
I don't want black men shopping at Wal Mart to be gunned down for handling merchandise that Wal Mart sells.
MOST of all, I don't want to see so many of my friends have to tell their sons how to behave in order not to be gunned down by police.
I don't want to have to wonder if today is going to be the day they tell me one of my friends was gunned down by police.
I don't want all this injustice, and all this fear.

So, no, I don't want to see Ferguson burn. That's important. But the other things I don't want are MORE important.

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