I’m going to share something that might get me some shit, but I’m just saying exactly how I feel about everything. I guess I'm also curious about how others might feel about this...
Early this morning, I was waiting for my mother to get out of jury duty. I stayed in the car, in the air conditioning most of the time, on my phone.
A man walked up to the car, to which I cracked the window a bit and he asked if he could use my phone. I hesitated, as I have a hard time saying no to people, I told him, “No, Sir, I’m sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable with you using my phone. In fact, I don’t even let some of my best friends use it. It’s just a very personal item to me.”
I was rather relieved when he said, “That’s fine, but perhaps I could just tell you the number and you put it on speaker.”
This whole encounter was okay, except I felt afraid. It wasn’t of this man, but was for the fact that he was a negro man, and due to all the stupid political correctness that’s been going on, I felt afraid to even deny him, a stranger, to use my phone, because I felt that I was going to be called a racist.
The matter of the fact is, it doesn’t matter if this was a white man, a Chinese man, or even a woman, but because of everything that has been happening lately, I feel that I’m going to be labeled a racist because i didn’t trust a stranger to use my phone,na stranger who’s skin colour just happened to be black.
We need to calm down and realize that this race war is obviously a real thing, but I feel that I surely can’t be the only person who is afraid of something like this happening because while something obviously needs to be done about the horrible crimes being committed against the African American community, things are also being blown way, way out of the water on some things.
All lives matter. Stop judging people on the outside. If you’re an officer who is corrupt, stop thinking you’re above the law.
It’s simple, yet it’s so very complicated.
