What We Must Do
We cannot desire progression while tolerating regression. We cannot demand from others what we do not first give ourselves: respect. We cannot expect the police to protect us when we kill them as they do their job. Granted, some incidents were unjustified. Some incidents were unwarranted. However, we must do what we ask others to do. We must look at the situation from others perspective; in this case, the officer's side. We must learn to let the facts speak for themselves. We must learn to base our opinions off of reason. We cannot base our opinion off of emotion. We cannot base our opinion off of reasonable emotion, for that is subjective. We must learn to base our opinions off of reason, and reason alone.
What we must do is simple: We must hearken back to our fore bearers and use their tactics to continue their fight. We must take the mantle of civility and uphold our fundamental principles in order to achieve equality. We cannot dissolve into various squabbling factions and expect results. We cannot use violence as a method for progress. We cannot disregard our forefathers plan, their tactics, their blueprint which enabled us to achieve what we have already. It is not the will of the spirit of our movement to conceive of a violent civil insurrection. We must, and I repeat, MUST overlook the superficial labels that divide us in order to see what can be done to unite us. Just think: All humans are nothing but bones after death. Are not all people bleached, white skeletons after death? Are not all people black when there is no light? If we, as humanity, could focus on our commonalities, then equality would be a feasible reality.