I don't normally post things like this because I don't know if what I feel can be adequately conveyed or understood through my writing and the last thing I want to do is offend anyone. But I was awoken early this morning to thoughts about what I've seen circulating the Internet and the comments being made under them, and I could not fall back asleep.
Such disturbing imagines make me worry about how to keep my family and friends safe but I also want to understand the full story. Just as we absolutely know that not 100% of people who are black are criminals we also need to remember that not 100% of cops are racist.
Sometimes I feel I live in my own bubble of peace within my blended family, assuming that the rest of the world is too at peace. And then I am reminded, shaken back to reality that unfortunately this is still somehow not the case. I think about what we can do and I feel we only have one option and that is to progress, progress through love.
Love on all sides, of all people, everyday.
To recognize that there are faults and problems and sadly terrible people who need to be held accountable (of all races) but that we can't fall into the temptation to categorize or hate all of any group of people.
I think he said it best: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.
