Living Black in America

            Unless you walk in my shoes and see through my eyes you will never understand what it feels like to be black and live in America.  It’s easy for one to say slavery happen so many years ago you should get over it, but in all honesty we still live in slavery.  We may not be picking cotton & working on plantations, but the things we go through still remind us we will never be equal. As I sit at my desk my mind wonders how the Indians and the Jews felt. Tragedy hit both races only because they were different and considered something they weren’t.    You have no idea of the pain I feel. Have you ever been pulled over by Caucasian police officers and put through awkward situations that were inhumane?  Each day we deal with DWB – driving while black.  How about the feeling of going to a store to purchase something and you are watched to the point you can feel the breath of the sales clerk on your neck.  In your mind you want to yell boo just to see them jump and then you think I make 3 to 4 times their salary and you are watching me for something that doesn’t even cost $4.99.  I have never cared for racism.   I grew up going to school with very little blacks.  I treated everyone as equal not because I had to but because that was the way I was raised. What you fail to understand is my family is a melting pot of color, so hating on you or mistreating you could mean I’m hurting my own flesh and blood.  Will we ever be treated as equals in this world I believe not.  Now if you think I agree with looting and burning your own neighborhood I don’t.  I believe we need to find other positive ways to deal with the injustice, rage and inhumane treatment we suffer.  My heart goes out to Brown family.  I still think about the Trayvon Martin case as well as Shawn Bell.  Wearing a badge has gone from protecting the innocent and administering real justice to a license to kill with no consequences.   This saddens me and my heart feels the pain of those who are going through.   We are all hurting but we must come up with a better solution on how to handle these situation.  I understand the anger, because it keeps occurring over and over again.  It’s in the news and people still turn a blind eye, but if we don’t stand together and lift each other up know this no one will.