Why are we not asking this question to our Black leaders? If our country is so hateful and racist towards blacks than how on God's green earth have we gotten to a point where the majority of white people voted for a black President? How did a black man even get to a point where he was able to run for president? The better question is what has that black man who rose up from poverty done to help our country further overcome this obstacle that is preventing our country from truly becoming United?
Many, if not most, of the inner cities which have the worst conditions for black people, where black people really have no where to excel and strive without leaving altogether are run by black mayors and black city counsel members. There is not a white or Republican leader anywhere in sight of many of these areas... so why is it still the white people who are to blame?
This whole argument stems from legal injustice, isn't the Attorney General a black woman? Wasn't the previous AG also black? Do we not have black members in Congress? Do we not have black judges handing out sentences? Black police chiefs, sheriffs, and officers?
I can't speak for every white person. I can only speak for myself and my reality is that I am angered that I am somehow being blamed for the oppression of black people simply because of my skin color. My family wasn't even in the US when slavery was happening, but that doesn't matter, it's the color of my skin that offends people and lumps me into that category. It seems that too many black people are so offended by the color of my skin that they don't even care that I would much rather stand beside you and fight for Equality and Justice than to stand against you. I will never understand just exactly how you view the world or any specific scenarios, just as you cannot see through my eyes. You are judging my heart by assuming that I can't or don't want the same things that you want... I just don't see how being disrespectful and divisive is going to achieve that goal?
I know you can't speak for all black people, but what I want to know is what exactly do black people expect from white People? What do you think that I, as a white woman, can do to fix this, that I am not already doing? Granted you don't know me and therefore that question becomes rhetorical, but I hope you get my point. These protests are just screaming at the issue rather than helping to solve it. Its just words, there is no action. The people who control the potential to make changes are not being held accountable. No one is willing to ask President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Loretta Lynch what they are doing to correct this issue. No one is even willing to admit that they have failed the nation in this situation. In fact, black people continue to statistically vote into office the very people who are doing nothing to help correct the issue.
I just don't understand why my children will have to fight this battle in their generation, just as my parents had to deal with it in theirs. We live in a time when Black people hold some of highest positions in their fields. Why are we still blaming slavery?
