Ignorance Lacking Bliss

 I've been gone because quite frankly, I don't even know where to begin. Things have been so crazy lately. In the world, I mean. Why is it that  innocent fifteen year old black girls get treated with less respect by officer's of the law, than a twenty-one year old white man who murdered NINE people? Is it truly fair that Dylann Roof was "removed without incident"  but Dajerria Becton "warranted excessive force", I don't understand this. And even  AFTER time has passed on both of these events, all you get are excuses. They say that Roof, didn't know what he was doing when he opened fire on innocent strangers in a place of worship. They say that he has mental instability and shouldn't really be held accountable for his actions. Well, you know what I SAY, Bullshit, is what I say. He knew he hated black people, as much as he knew he had an evil agenda. Apparently he wanted to initiate a "race war", for the good of the "white race", that's a bigot if I ever heard of one. But you know what, yesterday I really got to wondering and analyzing a lot of what I see around me. How can we ever get the "majority race" to accept us if we don't even accept ourselves? And based of an enlightening conversation I had yesterday I posted something on Facebook that actually opened my mind to this blog post, it went like this:

"Why do minority (really majority) races TRIP when they find out they got some Black in their Blood?! I was telling my very proud latina associate that's she's black as well. She was like "no I'm latina, do i look black to you." I said LOL "look black? What does black look like we come in all shades honey. I'm latina too. Very much so actually, and it doesn't make me any less black" She was like "that's ignorant." I said "what's ignorant is being afraid of who you are, that's what people like Dylann Roof feed off of and its ignorant to to think that if any ONE of us 'minority based races' were in that church we wouldn't have been targeted as well
‪#‎GetItTogether‬ ‪#‎WereAllBlack‬ ‪#‎StopTheSelfHate‬ ‪#‎WereHatedEnoughAlready‬
— feeling annoyed."

Mind you, I didn't mean any harm to anyone when I wrote this. It's just interesting to see how we as a people say we're tired of being mistreated by "the white man" but how can we really ever gain peace and prosperity even we don't KNOW nor ACCEPT who we actually are. What people need to realize is if WE don't respect ourselves FIRST, men like Dylann Roof and Eric Casebolt will never understand why what they did and believe is WRONG. Therefore, forcing those nine lives and the life of Dajerria Becton, will have been irrevocably damaged in vain.