Nothing today should be about race; it should be about personal responsibility, if we each and everyone worried more about our own actions toward our communities we would live in a much safer world. Any one, white, black, red or yellow believe that violence will solve anything I have some bad news, violence begets violence and always will. There will always be someone else to blame when the truth is hard to swallow. Life is hard and sometimes we make mistakes but it is in our owning up to our flaws and making right what we each made wrong that makes us better then who we were yesterday.
Maybe we should be more open to our own actions then worrying about those petty slights caused by those who show their intelligence every time they open their mouths, forgive those that act on race for they need guidance not violence. Instead of burning down our own neighborhoods we should build better places for our children to grow and learn and instead of holding to some reckless code of silence about those who commit crimes we should tell the authorities about those who would destroy our homes endanger our children and create a living environment that cannot be trusted by anyone.
In the end Al Sharpton and others who fanned these flames will go home to their million dollar homes and leave us standing amongst the wreckage of our neighborhoods and lives, wondering what we did to ourselves and each other and what we accomplished.
Today accomplish something remarkable instead, paint a wall, clean a park, protect everyone’s children, turn in a drug dealer or look for a job. Start a path that leads to pride in your home and neighbors, leads to a safe environment for children and adults, so both will thrive, welcome people of all races to share and be part of your community so that the world will stop looking at people as different colors and see them for what we are, simply other people who seek peace and a place, people who need love and who love, People who demand safety from not only the police but each other and understand the we each must respect others and their property to earn the same respect back.
Have you helped anyone in your neighborhood today? It is not the government’s job to ensure that charity is part of our communities, it is our responsibility to live with peace and charity each day, do right so we can all grow and become better people.
Each day become a better person no matter the race and in some cases in spite of poor conditions and you will make a better world, one small neighborhood at a time.