From the mind of critic: “If one man shoots another man and gets arrested, charged and tried, not to mention held without bail till that trial starts to ensure attendance, while another man shoots another man during extremely similar circumstances, but gets released soon after being arrested with no charges, do we still belive the justice system is fair? Do we belive a road rage incident involving one black man shooting another black man needs to be tried, investigated and stopped, because it’s the exact problem that’s causing the downfall of society? Do we believe a road rage incident involving a white man shooting a black man needs to be tried, investigated and stopped because it’s the exact problem causing the downfall of society? Or do we find ourselves in the middle, where we believe everything needs to be investigated, but realize that fear of the other, however unjustified, has been learned, inherited and inbedded for generations, and causes some of us to shoot people who may not neccesarily look like us? No matter what side of the political spectrum we find ourselves on, we could all agree we have a lot of issues that have been kicked down the road for others to deal with. Maybe we do this because it’s hard to look at ourselves, and ask what we as a society have done to prevent and/or cause this. Maybe we don’t do anything about racial issues, because then we would have to admit there is a problem. Maybe we shouldn’t believe everything that anybody says, and take everything from everybody with a grain of salt. Maybe we’ll realize that letting go of issues and attitudes that don’t serve us anymore entails recognizing the problem so we know we’re letting go of the right thing, we’ll see that recognition is done when bad events happen, and not later after the fact. Once we see that shooting people is bad, we’ll see that putting ourselves in the shoes of the victim, might make us not so lenient on the shooters. Peace on earth involves peace for all of us, and listening when people say they don’t have peace, even if we say they do” 🙂