09/11/2024: Unkindness and Lies
A lot of worldly issues have been on my mind the last couple of days. Witnessing a video of someone being treated unfairly brought a tear to my eye yesterday. Firstly, I’m appalled by people’s gut reactions to pick sides and not understand the full picture. I can’t know the whole situation either from a video after the fact, but I can watch it and see that it was something that no non-violent person deserves.
It was upsetting because no human being should be treated with violence and aggression, especially if they had no intent to bring harm to anyone else. And on top of how this irrational officer acted toward this individual for a measly traffic violation, his partner didn’t step in or step up to deescalate the situation. That right there is part of the problem; nobody’s standing up for people; they're just letting bad apples be bad apples. If more people would say something, anything, or hold people back if necessary, maybe things would be different.
I’m sure the mistreated person in question was scared and confused, as any human would be in an unexpected and unnecessarily heated altercation with law enforcement. In my eyes, nobody holds anyone else accountable for their wrongdoing. I hate to see that the state of the world is still shockingly cruel when we’re all human beings that just want to be treated with the same dignity, respect, and kindness as the next person. We just want to be happy, to feel safe, to be loved. Is that so hard? After the events of the weekend that I watched from a cop’s body cam footage, I’m thinking that it might be impossible for some. Well shame on them. It’s just awful.
Meanwhile in the world of politics, I turned on the debate last night, just wishing the world was a better place, and that there were actual people that cared about real change. But instead I got what I expected: a couple of clowns that don’t know me, don’t care about my mundane problems, and that are only trying to push their own agendas that help no one, leaving all of us to remain helpless pawns in a bigger game than any of us can understand.
All of this to say, I’m tired of waking up to unkindness. I’m sick of hearing lies. I just wish I could believe that human nature is kind, and that real change will come for the people who need it.