Race

  Does America have a race problem?  I don't think so.  I think its a problem created by main stream media and media hogs like Al Sharpton.  I grew up on Air Force bases, base housing to be exact and it was a mixing bowl of all different races and religions who happened to have a parent or parents in the Air Force.    I came very close to dating a black man before I discovered much to my amazement that my Dad was not very keen on that idea, I did date a Vietnamese Marine, that griped him worse, but in that case he happened to be right and it had nothing to do with race and everything to do with him being a Marine.
   Are the police more brutal?  I have a thought,if you don't want to be in a bad situation with police don't commit crimes.  None of these recent incidents were with innocent people, every last one of them had a rap sheet, committed a crime or made the bad decision to run, or in the case of Travon tried to attack a guy who was protecting his neighborhood and was armed to protect himself.  In each of these cases parents lost a child, it is horrible, it is sad, no parent should have to bury their child.  Parents should teach their child if the police ever stop you for anything, do exactly what you are told immediately, if you are innocent, sort it out at the station or in court if necessary.  The police have a tough job, they want to go home at night, they don't want to shoot anybody.  The guilt of that is enormous.  The knowledge of killing someone's child is horrible.  It's even more horrible if that person was unarmed, but understand a big guy coming at you is armed with considerable size and can hurt you.  Tasering doesn't always work especially if that person is high.  You have a split second decision to make to insure you go home to your loved ones and nobody else gets hurt.  The only case right now that is in question is what happened to Freddie Gray!  Suppose the police gave him a rough ride unrestrained and because of his recent injuries he was gravely injured and died.  The police are in the wrong if that is what happened.  That is no reason to burn, loot, and destroy your community, that does nothing.  Dr. King would roll over in his grave.  he preached non- violence.  It accomplishes nothing to try and harm the police.  Be the change, be a positive change.  It is not a race issue, it is people who felt entitled to act like thugs!  They do it every time, we have come to expect it.  Why?  It is not a race issue it is in the words of a black preacher a sin issue.  They have helped nobody, they have not even started a decent conversation.  They act like thugs and destroy their communities and hurt people and Al Sharpton and the media descend like vultures to prey.  It sells, destruction sells, that is sad.  There will be a next time, we don't even hear of other cases involving people who aren't black, we don't hear of black on black violence, we don't hear when blacks attack whites, or even when Muslims attack anybody because it doesn't sell like a police officer injuring or killing a black person.  We made it a racial issue, our President sends delegates to these funerals but true patriots and heroes get nothing.  A former head of State, Margaret Thatcher dies and our country does nothing, we look horrible as a nation for that. Our priorities are messed up, it is high time we stood up and said this has got to stop.  Instruct our young people how to behave.  A woman just showed us sometimes how to do that, maybe you don't have to slap your child in public, but he understands that Mama didn't raise him to be a thug and I don't see him as being a victim he has a mama who loves her baby and will do whatever it takes.  As a nation we need to make sure that there is never another Ferguson, or Baltimore, or New York, ever again it takes education and understanding and an old fashioned thing called compassion for your fellow man.