RIOT

ON BALTIMORE:

I understand the anger.

 I am angry too. 

How many lost lives can one community handle without become enraged? 

How many injustices can one group suffer without looking for some recompense?

Now listen; I do NOT agree with the violence. It makes no sense to me. 

It's reckless and self harming.

It's unorganized and misdirected. 

It's dark and its leaving behind destruction that community  themselves will have to suffer through later, but let me ask a question: 

Have you ever seen a mother that has just lost a child respond to her grief? Have you ever watched them scream and cry and beg, and when that doesn't work, fly into a rage so incredible, that only a hurricane rivals their damage? 

It is reckless and self harming.

It's unorganized and misdirected. 

It is dark and lonely and will leave behind more disrepair. 

NO ONE  believes that these riots, that this immense outcry of anger, or that this damage will solve ANYTHING.

This is the result an entire people reacting to their grief. 

This is a nation tired of burying it's sons and daughters and having no one held accountable for their loss.

This is a battle cry for justice out of pain DECADES in the making. 

This is the language of the unheard, the grieving mothers, the forgotten.

It doesn't make sense.

It isn't supposed to. 

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