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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
Absolutely worth 2 minutes and 20 seconds of your time.
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Thanks for the video, Ben. I know that pain all too well. Those men could easily be people I grew up with. That kid could easily be my son. And those men were exactly me 2 days ago in my office talking to my wife. Mad. Angry. Frustrated. Worried about the future of my beautiful children. And overall, tired.
Tired of this bullshit. Tired of having to hear about the same action causing the same protests with the same cries for justice and the same promises for change. Tired of being told the reason the person was killed was that they were a criminal and deserved to die. Or resisted arrest. Or said something. I'm tired of the people killing others getting away with it. Or getting a short sentence.
Just tired of being fucking tired.
I don't know what the solution is, but I think there is one. There will always be people who are prejudiced. It's in the way we're wired...to find comfort with people who are like us and to be concerned with people who aren't. Maybe we all need to start interacting with more people who don't look like us so that we can see that they are like us.
Sorry for the ramble. A lot going through my mind these days that I've wanted to get out. And thanks for reading if you got this far.