Black lives matter
Protesting
Killing police officers
Shooting at unarmed people
Mass hysteria
Police militarization
Is such a joy kill
It all seems like a lose/lose
It all seems like a lose/lose
It's all so wrong
It just seems to be serving to divide us
More and more
To splinter our country
Maybe this is a big ugly boil (of collective racism)
That just needs to pop
To heal
But I can't imagine the toll it's going to take
To get to a place where we can start healing
Things seem to be spiraling out of control to some degree
So now
They've slapped charges on Officer Betty Shelby
Does that bring back the dead man
Does that justify the terror she feels on the job
The terror a lot of officers
And civilians now feel
None of these ways seem the right way to me
I don't have the answers
Someone much smarter than me may
Or a group of dedicated social scientist
And philosophers
And social justice activists
In the trenches
The people living this daily
Must have some solutions
I would think/hope
And social justice activists
In the trenches
The people living this daily
Must have some solutions
I would think/hope
But the people making the shots
Controlling the media
They don't seem to be making the correct calls to me
They aren't helping be the solution to the problem
Some Police Chiefs are standing up
Are holding their officers accountable
If we could do that more
If the unions didn't have such a tight grip
If the mentality of the police wasn't one of force and subjugation.
If we could reach into every persons heart
Police and Civilians alike
And remind ourselves that we are all just humans
Fallible, sometimes erring, sometimes fearing, sometimes (unfortunately) hating
And that we are more alike than we will ever be different.
Then. Maybe. Just Maybe.
We can turn this around.
You gotta clean house from the inside out
Inside each one of us
Inside each business
Each government
Each township
Each entity
This disease can't be fully tackled from the outside
Unless it's taken completely apart probably maybe
And even then it will just be rebuilt
Probably to another set of subpar standards.
Like when we broke the Saddam Hussein regime apart
Supposedly
Only to have ISIS follow
Yea. That was smart. :/
This cancer that has been growing or festering
Needs to be expunged
And the only way to do that
From ALL sides
Is with love
Are holding their officers accountable
If we could do that more
If the unions didn't have such a tight grip
If the mentality of the police wasn't one of force and subjugation.
If we could reach into every persons heart
Police and Civilians alike
And remind ourselves that we are all just humans
Fallible, sometimes erring, sometimes fearing, sometimes (unfortunately) hating
And that we are more alike than we will ever be different.
Then. Maybe. Just Maybe.
We can turn this around.
You gotta clean house from the inside out
Inside each one of us
Inside each business
Each government
Each township
Each entity
This disease can't be fully tackled from the outside
Unless it's taken completely apart probably maybe
And even then it will just be rebuilt
Probably to another set of subpar standards.
Like when we broke the Saddam Hussein regime apart
Supposedly
Only to have ISIS follow
Yea. That was smart. :/
This cancer that has been growing or festering
Needs to be expunged
And the only way to do that
From ALL sides
Is with love
