I know I've been gone a few days and that technically this is the morning, but I felt this needed saying in light of yet another high profile case in florida. You may be wondering what my 3rd grade experience has to do with Trayvon Martin, but I promise that this is Relevant.
Alot of eight year olds are not going to learn this. Perhaps schools are more careful now, but what I encountered was my first real taste of injustice. Keep in mind that at the time I was a rather shy child, heavily bullied and alienated. I hadn't a friend really in the world. Some of the popular students had been messing around and I attempted to join them in their conversation. I am not certain whether they had heard incorrectly or if they'd just wanted to get me in trouble. A student lied to the teacher and said that I had sworn and said a heavy curse word. She said I would be suspended for such an offense. I made a passionate plea, breaking down into tears. I was a good kid. I never got suspended or acted up. My father would have beaten me for it. I was terrified of him. Strangely enough he believed me, and tried to reason with the school. It was probably one of the last times he ever voluntarily did something good as a father. In the end I received a one day suspension despite the truth. It was me against the honest faces of popular children that were generally more liked than I.
I don't know how many people ever grow up with that lesson. The lesson that sometimes the truth doesn't matter to them. In college I took a course in psychology with a professor that had the teaching passion of sock lint, but what I took away was the idea of brain development. Now according to a theory, the human brain develops overtime allowing their morality to develop as they age. What I mean to say is that when you are young morality is black and white. When you are older it becomes shades of gray. The weight of decisions that children make can sometimes not be felt by them until they are far older. I have entered adulthood with the expectation that human morality is more sophisticated in the average adult. Yet all I seem to see is the opposite. What I see is masses with a disgusting thirst for blood and retribution.
What I see is that the average person desires revenge in the face of perceived injustice rather than understanding. I keep wishing for people to change the way they think and act, to what they often preach. I see those that consider themselves religious good people, thirsty for bloody satisfaction. Most people don't know what happens in prison nor have even the slightest clue that people often come out worse than they go in. I thought the idea was to aid society with locking up criminals with the idea that it will teach them a lesson of some kind. What does killing people or raping their morality solve? It helps no one. I am appalled at what I see,
I see a man that is visibly upset that he killed someone. I see the masses crying racism while also being racist enough to immediately assume everything is a hate crime. If you have indeed found a cold blooded killer that gunned down an innocent man, what does any of this solve. Think for a moment if you are wrong. It's been proven that there are indeed some innocent men in jail as we speak. It's true that we've executed innocent men before in our justice system. Think for a moment if you are wrong. Imagine a man did get beat up and shot a person in self-defense. Imagine their guilt and imagine now that people are hungry for your death. Imagine that they have a hunger never quite sated. It is disgusting that in our society, crimes or no, that so many consider themselves civilized and still are so quick to condemn and destroy their fellow man.
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