How many unarmed people have to die? CNN opinion . Good Read

[lunasun]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/opinion/granderson-missouri-police-shooting/index.html
I am tired.
I am tired of having to march to have murderers arrested. Tired of worrying about my 17-year-old being gunned down by some random white guy who thinks his music is too loud. Tired of knowing the same could happen to me.

I am tired of seeing a hashtag in front of a victim's name on Twitter. Tired of seeing Al Sharpton speak on behalf of a family. Tired of waiting for verdicts and hoping for justice --as if hearing "guilty" can ease the anxiety of knowing a police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old black man while he was lying face down and with his hands behind his back.

I'm tired of the cynics who are quick to extend the benefit of the doubt to a gunman but hesitant to do the same for an unarmed teenage girl who had been shot in the face. I am tired of seeing images of police officers with snarling dogs threatening a crowd of black protesters and not knowing if it's from the 1960s or last week.

Just as I'm tired of watching the video of Eric Garner being placed in a chokehold by NYPD, listening to him say "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" and then watching him die minutes later.

But I need to keep watching because apathy is a clever hunter. It cloaks itself with FBI statistics and slips into the system between runs to Starbucks. Then one day as you're sipping your grande decaf mocha, you see a headline about an unarmed black man being shot and killed by police and think nothing of it.
Or worse yet -- assume he did something to deserve it.
I'm tired of unarmed dead black people being put on trial. I'm tired of politicians visiting our churches for votes but skipping out on these funerals
I'm tired of hearing mothers and fathers weep for children who did not have to die.
But most of all I'm tired of the people who are not tired like me.

[madashelltoo]

1. Amen.

[bravenak]

2. I am exhausted.

Seems like they just want to kill us all and nobody cares. I guess I better take out my IUD and have some more children just in case they kill these ones I have. I'll need somebody to grieve with me when the cops start killing my family.

[yurbud]

3. I hope you're wrong, but you're probably not.

[lastlib]

4. A: All of them. This message brought to you by the NRA and the gun makers.

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[Sam1]

5. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

6. k+r