Things don’t change because we have a bunch of political people claiming there is no race problem in America. Not because it’s a complex situation. And putting a price on cameras is making its own point. Policing our communities began based on racism in our country. Let’s acknowledge the system fails and try to fix it. “It’s hard” isn’t an answer either. “Doing nothing” isn’t an answer. You and I agree anyone can burn things down. When government starts focusing more on WHY people are doing it things will begin to change. WHY are people rioting? Maybe they don’t feel heard? They don’t have the power to chang things? We focus more on the wrongs than the solutions. I’m not implying rioting is okay, I’m stating I understand why.
This would apply to the southern states, the states that had slaves. The northern states didn't have slaves so this doesn't apply to that area of our country.
My family didn't come to this country until the beginning of the 20th century so I don't consider myself part of the history of our country that condoned such behavior as slavery. My grandparents came to this country as indentured servants, a form of slavery so you see it just didn't/doesn't happen to people of color. Oh by they way, we are ALL people of color, white, black, brown, yellow, tan, pink.... and we all matter.
Unfortunately slavery still continues in parts of the world today. It's not a novel idea and it's certainly not unique to our country only. Actually slavery (human bondage) most likely still goes on in this country today. When you see/saw those photos of young girls coming over the southern boarder in trucks don't you wonder how they were going to survive in this country once they got here? Who was going to watch out for them and be responsible for them? My guess is they had a debt to pay once they got here. Very sad, there are people so desperate to get to this country, the land of opportunity that they are will to risk all but our own citizens don't see just how lucky they are to be here.
People speak of inequality but fail to realize nothing is truly fair in life. There are no guarantees in life. We each have to do the best we can with the gifts we have been given by our creator and if we work hard enough we can do very well in this country. Just look around you at all the successful people in this country from ALL races. Being white is no guarantee that you are going to have an easy life. White people have to work just as hard as anybody else to make it in this world.
I can assure you that nobody gave me anything that I didn't work hard to get. But I was lucky because I had a good family upbringing as a child. I had a mom and a dad that cared for me and my siblings and stayed together and did right by all of us. This is probably one of the most important things that people of every race and socioeconomic background should consider when having children; the importance of family, taking responsibility of the children we bring into the world.
My husband served in the Vietnam War, when he got home he had a very hard time finding a job. He had three major strikes against him, he was white (equal rights movement), he was male (equal rights for women) and he was a Vietnam vet (all Vietnam vets were considered drug users). But persistence paid off and my husband finally landed a job where he was able to work his way up the line to VP of more than one company. He did this through hard work, many, many hours of hard work, persistence and belief in himself. So you see nothing comes for free and life isn't fair, life is what we make of it.