I don’t need to write a preface to this, we all know what’s gone on in this short week.  I don’t write this blog to make money, I don’t even know how one does that, but I’m sure some of the maybe 20ish followers I have may find this incomprehensible and unfollow me.  In the end this isn’t about followers,  it never was, it was about me being able to freely write what I feel.  

So here goes:

If you are threatened by #blacklivesmatter, and need to seek out justification  for why “all lives matter” YOU are the problem. 

 If you have never (like I have never)  worried that your son, daughter, husband, wife, mother, father, bff, etc could be beaten, hurt, or killed in a seemingly simple normal everday occurance, because they aren’t white, and you seek out ways to deny THE REALITY that people of different colors face, YOU are the problem. 

If you refuse to admit that there are,and have been instances where certain members of the police force(because they are human and not all humans are good)  have acted without justification and abused and even killed men and women of color YOU are the problem.  

If you are posting nonstop about “bad cops”, and talking trash about police- YOU are the problem.  

If you have decided that the actions of a minority of law officers defines ALL law officers, YOU are the problem.  

If you think that police are superhuman beings not subject to normal human standards of being good people or bad people, YOU are the problem. 

On the same note if you think people who have experienced these hate crimes (crimes against people of color and crimes against law enforcement officers) should just ‘suck it up’ and feel no anger, outrage, horror, and grief YOU are the problem. 

#blacklivesmatter doesn’t mean they matter more…it means that we obviously live in a world where some people believe they DON’T  and it’s way beyond overdue that that belief ENDS.

#POLICELIVESMATTER doesn’t mean they are above the law, held to different standards, it means we obviously live in a world where some believe they should be judged by the few rotten apples and it’s beyond overdue that that belief ENDS. 

It’s easy to surf the net, fb and your “go to” sites for stories that support your diluted belief that the world is fair, that racism is a thing of the past, that police are ‘out to get us’.  To admit that we haven’t come nearly as far as we thought, that racism is rampant, that fear and hatred of police exists…that takes courage to admit. 

Priveledge exists, and you, yes, YOU- have no reason to feel shame for it…you didn’t ask for it, but if you refuse to acknowledge it, then you refuse to acknowledge the struggles of those who don’t have it. 

I can’t NOT be me, a white middle aged female who has never feared I would be singled out based on my skin color.  That doesn’t mean I get to slide the injustice under the rug, pretend it doesn’t exist and carry on…

Stop trying to find ways to justify your bullshit belief that it’s all good.  It’s NOT .