Is it just me? Or does it seem like time passes more and more quickly as we get older? I complain weekly about how long it feels like days are when I'm at work, but the weekends and even the evenings and nights seem to fly by with out any consideration for my desire that they last. It's hard to believe that it's the end of April. Seriously... the end of April.
Where is 2015 going?
I guess it's on it's way to 2016.
I haven't written here in a while, not for any other reason than I am just lost in my own world and writing about it sometimes seems too personal to do. So I just keep the thoughts internal an move on.
But there are those events, that while do not effect me directly have an affect.
There is clearly a stigma of preconceived thoughts when it pertains to police and their bias with young african-american men. Baltimore. Ferguson. St. Louis. North Charleston.
I ask some friends and co-workers if this is a situation that is getting worse, or if this is just how things have been but it's finally getting coverage. They all agree; this is a situation that has existed for much longer than it seems that it has been reported. Sadly.
But thanks to easy access to cameras on phones, it's becoming more and more available when it occurs, because witness can easily post it to the world; just like this.
What's the fix? Clearly this being a negative bias on a particular group of human beings is bigoted and racist. Any denial of it being different is just that; denial.
So what is the fix? Sensitivity training?
I have never received any sort of law enforcement training, and I find it hard to believe that any officer would ever admit that they were trained with Ferguson, and Baltimore in mind.
It's sad that we, as humans have developed a sense, sometimes, well.... a lot of the times, false sense of recognition of a person, their intentions and their character based purely on their appearance, skin color, location, attire, or even mannerisms.
Is this an evolutionary thing? How many thousands of years old is this?
In the end for today, I guess I just want to ask for prayers of calming and understanding for all that are effected, directly and indirectly. Forgiveness and justice are needed in these situations.
