Am I the only one that's sick and tired of feeling bad for victims of police violence? [View all]

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

Feeling bad, feeling sad, feeling compassion for Michael Brown is certainly right, moral, as well as a normal healthy human instinct, but it never seems to change anything. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, with no changes to the system. The system is corrupt, from the police, to the media that covers them. Parts of Ferguson burned to the ground, and no changes will be made. Protesters, peaceful or not, and still no change. We must have "peaceful" protests, but the media ignores that, and still no changes. What is left for us to do to facilitate, or force change in a completely corrupt system?

I feel helpless and hopeless. In my white world, the police seem to serve and protect. But in black communities, it seems to be accepted by the status quo that the police can treat humans as animals, to be herded, and culled at will - with NO REPERCUSSIONS!

We, as in normal, compassionate, empathetic citizens seem to have no avenue EXCEPT to resort to violence, and that makes me even sadder and more hopeless.

I'm open to any ideas or suggestions.