Crazed2APoint ENIGMA WRAPPED IN FOOLISHNESS's blog: "Crazed Times"

Ok so this was something I posted on one of my friend's post on Facebook. It was a picture talking about Alton Sterling's police record. Not trying to spark a Facebook debate that leads nowhere. Just putting my feelings out there about how I see us as humans reacting to the things going on right now..... 

I wasn't gonna get into any of these topics on Facebook because these things just devolve into stupid back and forths that accomplish nothing. But after reading this post and the comments within this I just gotta say this.... Do I think Sterling was some great guy? No. Do I think the cops that killed him are racist? No clue. To me I don't look at this fully as a race thing. I look at it as an incompetence thing. SOME cops these days are just not good at their jobs. Whether it's from bad training. Them not screening the officers properly to make sure they're intelligent and able to handle pressure packed situations. Or just a case of good people that let the power of the badge go to their heads. There is no justification for what happened in the Sterling killing. I've seen all the angles of the video, and I seen the cop reach deep into Sterling's pocket and pull the gun out. They weren't in danger an they killed him. They had the upper hand in the situation. Was it because of race? Would this have gone different if he were white? We'll never know. But what we do know from the video this situation didn't have to end with ANYBODY losing their life. And all of this goes for the Castile shooting as well who had a 4 year old child in the backseat of the car when that killing happened. Killing somebody should never be the first or second resort. You don't kill somebody as a middle ground. It should always be the last resort and that's not what this was.

The thing that happened in Dallas is awful. The cops that got shot there didn't deserve what happened to them. But it pisses me off when I see a whole race blamed for the actions of a few. And that goes in all directions. Black, white, Hispanic, people from other countries ect. Now because of the actions in Dallas it's being called the start of a race war. Blacks are going out killing white cops. This was the work of 1 person. 1 insane idiotic hateful person. He doesn't represent the majority. He doesn't represent half of us. He doesn't even represent the thought process of not even 2% percent of the black race. Just like the KKK doesn't represent even 2% of white America. This was an unfortunate thing that happened because some people in this world are just flat out insane.

So basically my main points are that there are NO group of people, religion, profession (cops) that are all bad. The majority of human kind are good people (I like to believe). But we all just have the few bad seeds that can make a whole group look bad. People need to stop letting the actions of a few people dictate their views. The media is all about sensationalizing any and every story they get. They will push agendas to keep a story going. And a lot of people just believe EVERYTHING the media and the government tells us without looking into these issues and researching and forming our own opinions based on what we ourselves find out. We have the Internet. We have all the information at our fingertips, but we rarely use it. The world is bigger than just my experiences. The world is bigger than just the experiences of the people I know. Expand your mind and realize we need to stop painting full pictures of groups based on the few.