Dallas Shooting Eyewitness Says Exactly What We Need To Hear After This Week
Dallas Shooting Eyewitness Says Exactly What We Need To Hear After This Week
by Nick Wing at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellon-nixon-msnbc_us_577ff5a0e4b0344d514f3ae7?section=politics
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Nixon explained that he had to regain his humanity after the bullets started flying.
You start to think its me against the world. And with that type of mentality, well implode as a people, he said. Well implode not as ethnicity as a people, but as a people, period. Were all one race at the end of the day. If we get a me against the world mentality ― last night I was thinking, maybe its not black lives matter or all lives matter, maybe its just my life matters. Maybe its just my familys life matters. I had to recover from that spiritually.
I had to be reminded that love conquers all, he added. If I let that mentality overwhelm me, then who can I help?
Nixon also recounted his own story of redemption and how police officers helped him turn his life around.
At a point in my life, I sold drugs, he said. And the honest truth is that the mercy that was extended to me wasnt by other drug dealers, it wasnt by African-American men. But it was by two Anglo-American officers that found me with drugs and they extended me mercy. And from there I was able to be a husband. I was able to be a father. Im a pastor and a preacher now. And at the same time, when Im in a three-piece suit, from the police Im treated worse than when I was a thug.
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