Every time I turn on the radio or TV all I hear about is either Covid 19 or the violent riots taking place in the United States and around the globe. Why does the media continually focus on the people that have died instead of those that have survived? I’m sick and tired of it.
As I sit and watch and read about rioters and looters violently protest the sad death of Mr. Floyd, I can’t help but wonder where all these people have been when black citizens are killed in Chicago or St. Louis or Baltimore? Is this outrage because of what a white police officer did? How is it that there are riots all over the world because of something that happened in Minneapolis, MN, USA? And if Black Lives Matter was honest, why don’t you hear any of them talking about the poor retired police captain that was murdered during the riots in St. Louis while he was protecting a friends business? Or how about all the shootings happening on the South side of Chicago every week? Silence, nada, nothing! I’m sick and tired of it!
Organized rioters with pallets of bricks and stockpiles of incendiary devices to be thrown into businesses and at police aren’t an accident. Destruction of public and private property are justified because the protesters say black people are oppressed by the police in the U.S. 700,000 police officers in the U.S. and all police departments should be defunded? What a ridiculous and foolish demand. Forget the fact that white on black crime is 1/10 that of black on black crime. Forget the fact that 88 black people were shot and killed by police but there were 172 white people killed in 2019. Forget the fact there were 147 police officers killed in the line of duty in the same period of time. But we’re supposed to believe the main stream media spew how these “protests” are non-violent and all police are racist animals with no regard for safety or human life. No doubt there are some bad actors in the ranks but a lion share take their oath to “serve and protect” very seriously. Violence directed at the police and local politicians not supporting their own officers… I’m sick and tired of it.
Why is there a 2 tiered legal system in this country? How can professional politicians get rich and get away with murder, avoiding paying taxes, breaking laws by leaking classified documents to the press and un-elected bureaucrats weaponize departments of the government against citizens like the IRS or the FBI without repercussion and YET, people are arrested for opening their barber shops or going to church. Why can protesters not be arrested for not social distancing but churches are not allowed to congregate at all? I’m sick and tired of it!
I’m still trying to figure out how some citizens declare the U.S. is a racist country and was founded on racism. If the U.S. is such a racist country, how do you explain a black President, Attorney General, Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Governors, Chiefs of Police, Mayors, millionaire actors and athletes? Those individuals didn’t achieve those successes in a racist country. They achieved because of the opportunity this country provided them. That’s not racist. I’m sick and tired of it.
If I don’t agree with someone’s opinion, why does that make me a Nazi or a homophobe or a racist? Why is my voice or voices like mine silenced on Facebook, Twitter and the rest because of some algorithm written by someone that doesn’t agree with that opinion? Who gives anyone the right to silence the voice of any citizen of the U.S.? No one…speech is protected by the First Amendment. All anyone has to do is read the New York Times, Washington Post or Huffington Post and see a one sided view of what they proclaim to be the truth and then have to retract on page 6 months later. I’m sick and tired of it.
Defacing or removing monuments from the past, rioting, damaging property and looting are criminal acts that deserve to be prosecuted and yet we have local governments all over the country releasing these criminals back into the streets. Whatever happened to the rule of law? I’m sick and tired of it.
I simply can’t understand unhappy, dissatisfied people believe the way forward to positive change is to perform violent acts. If these people spent more time learning about our country’s history versus tearing everything down, much of which, they know nothing about, and learn about the mistakes of the past, then maybe, just maybe, we’d have a more educated electorate as opposed to having to listen to the vile language being spewed with pure hatred toward people that are sworn to protect them. And I’m sick and tired of THAT too!
It’s amazing to me how many young adults protesting have all the answers to serious issues but very little life experience from which to draw. They haven’t accomplished anything, don’t have any skin in the game and demand someone take care of them all the time. Mommy and Daddy didn’t do enough, the government didn’t help me enough, I can’t do whatever I want whenever I want! Those evil successful people, they shouldn’t have what they’ve worked their whole lives for. The system is rigged against me. The American dream is dead.
I guess we won’t have to worry about Global Warming destroying the world because these protesters will burn it all down before all the ice melts! And I’m sick and tired of THAT too!!!