We're all to blame
This unbelievable State sanctioned murder of a child, because of nothing more than the color of his skin ,is symptomatic of so much that is wrong with this country
A man kills a child and the victim is drug tested but not the murderer.
A man kills a child after being told by the police not to follow the child and the family of the child has to hire attorneys to even have the murderer charged.
The Stand Your Ground law in Florida was not applied in the case of an abused woman who shot at the ceiling when her abuser came after her again. The same prosecutors for that case were the prosecutors in case the Zimmerman trial. But in the case of the abused, black woman, who hurt no one, the woman was convicted and put in jail for 20 years. But a black boy with skittles walks home from the store, is murdered in cold blood and the murderer gets off. He will receive his gun back and be allowed to conceal and carry.
The NRA, corporate greed, racism, lack of gun laws, misogyny are all to blame.
However, at the heart of the matter is we are all to blame for this child's death.
Nearly 60 years since the murder of Emmett Till and we seemed to have learned nothing.
"The deterioration of every government beginswith the decay of the principles on which it was founded." Charles-Louis De Secondat
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- We create reality. No one escapes. It's our play, as Shakespeare informed us, and we all have parts in it. If you can't appreciate quantum mechanics, you might want to stop right here.
K&R
...we can try to separate this madness if we want to. We do it all the time. We've been trained to. We've learned to pretend that down is up, and left is right, and right is wrong. And most of us can do so now with little hesitation. We shake our heads, we look away.
But we're the ones who separate the dead gunshot babies killed by our own children in Newtown, from the dead Droned babies in Yemen or Pakistan. We demand new laws to reign-in the guns from the gunnutz, then conveniently forget about our all our bombs, and mines, tear gas, tasers, machine guns, jet fighters, submarines and Drones and bombers and surveillance satellites and most of all: the massive nuclear arsenal we still allow to exist which threatens all life on the planet.
So to escape that responsibility we go mentally navel-gazing and turn-on the latest Reality TeeVee program to drown-out the images of the twisted limbs and anguished gut-wrenched faces of the mothers and fathers. The dead futures of all these children at last equal, in death.
In our time now the truth-tellers, the whistleblowers and sometimes people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, get jailed, get imprisoned, and Gitmoed. We swallow a Prozac with our Red Bull and go petro-plasticly consuming on our merry way without much of a thought of it all. Hoping, praying inside our terrified souls that someone will do something, somewhere to makes it all stop.
Just stop.
Because we don't believe that we can stop it or we would have, and no one whom we've ''elected'' has stopped the madness either. They just seem make more madness for us.
So we look askance at all this immorality. We do it so that we don't see ourselves in the reflections. We know it comes back to us. We cannot get away from TRUTH no matter how far we run away from it. It follows and remains with us until we become it and it becomes who we are.
There is no other way.
We can't keep looking outside ourselves to these ''leaders'' we send to solve problems we've created through our neglect and aloofness from engaging life directly. We cannot send them off to find the answers to this madness for us, when it should be clear that's the wrong place for us to look and the wrong place for us to start.
The problems we have were created by us.
They are the hard lessons we've inflicted upon ourselves to reach this point.
Now we must go beyond the point where we have normally stopped. And done nothing.
The power is in us.
And nowhere else.
~DeSwiss
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[/center]Thank you for such a great response! You did a much better job than I.
