Just to get a few things straight...
It is common sense that charging a police officer will get you shot.
Michael Brown was not a helpless victim. He attacked Darren Wilson, and that will also get you shot.
There is absolutely no evidence that Darren Wilson is racist. If you say it was racist because he was a white man shooting a black man (and he was a man, not a little baby boy), then you are a moron. I don't care who you are; if you attack me and then charge me, I will shoot your ass until you stop coming at me. Defending yourself and valuing your own life enough to defend it like any normal person would do is not wrong, whether you're a cop or a normal citizen.
Destroying businesses and rioting is never okay. Ever. Destroying people's livelihood just makes you an asshole, a vandal, and a criminal.
Darren Wilson did not have money raised for him by the KKK. The Imperial Wizard (no, seriously) of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Frank Ancona, denounced it himself.
The eyewitness accounts of the shooting of Michael Brown were inconsistent, and some people later admitted to not having actually seen the shooting, or whether or not Michael Brown had his hands up when he came toward Officer Wilson.
An entire town has been half-burned to the ground in the name of protesting police brutality. By being brutal against police. Two wrongs do NOT make a right. We should not strive to be a revenge-driven nation.
Racism is wrong on all levels, whether it's white-on-black, black-on-white, hispanic-on-asian, or whatever. Any combination you can think of is still racism. Stop making it a black-only issue. Stop cherry-picking your shootings.
20-year-old unarmed white male shot dead by black police officer.
White army veteran killed by black police officer.
Asian teen shot dead by LAPD police
I'm tired of all the tweets saying that it is a race issue because of the races of the people involved. Darren Wilson wasn't out looking for a black target because he was a white man. White people aren't born with this little chip in their brain that makes them hate black people. Michael Brown was not out looking for a white person to assault that day. He wasn't born hating white people. The difference is, he WAS out that day looking to commit a crime (robbing a convenience store, where he could have legally bought cigars, as he was of legal age), and when he was in danger of being apprehended for that crime, he chose to react violently. He made an incredibly stupid decision that got him killed. He did everything an unarmed person could to get shot (he didn't want to be shot, I'm just saying that if you made a checklist of all the things you could do wrong in that situation, he checked them all off).
I guess that's all I have to say on the subject. All that I can think of, anyway.
