Black lives matter

Well, a fight that has been going since slavery. A battle of showing that all men are equal no matter what has turned wrong. First, this is 2020, where we have all kinds of races and all kinds of life styles. Yet there’s the issue of a individual being oppressed simple because he is to dark or the wrong race. I’m a former United States Marine. I have been in law enforcement for almost 25/26 years. I should be able to do or go anywhere. I should be shown the respect such training and service deserve. There’s just one problem, I’m a afro American subject and I don’t get it all the time. My white counterparts can do similar things that I’ve done in my line of work and get way more praises than I do. Now am I saying that everyone treat me this way, no, but there are individuals that do (especially in the high ranks). Now, with that being said, I can point it out and raise total hell, but most likely they would find a way to discredit me and get me out. So I have to be smart about it. Same with the crooked/corrupt police, we must choose our battles carefully. First, not all police are out there just keying on blacks. So we can’t be out here witch hunting on every bad incident that involves a police and black subjects (that means look at it, but don’t assume that they have racial motivations). Being a police is a hard job and being new, sometimes officers mess up. Second, the good/decent police are just as upset as the public, do to the fact that it’s wrong and it tarnishes our badge that good officers wear with Pride. If we as blacks want to change things, then we have to try to come to a common ground with the police. Now, don’t mistake my wanting to work with the police a giving in because I’m a police, because I have it even harder. Why, because when the time comes and I have to stand up to injustice, I will and will deal with the after mass that comes from my partners that I work with on the street (but right is right and the minute we stop standing up, we lose it all). Not to mention, besides my family, I would have to deal with it alone. What it boils down to is, be smart about how you address the issues of the racial cops. Example; don’t try and fight with the police on the stop, go to internal affairs. One, you’re alive that way to tell your side only the way you can, being that you’re the victim. Second, you’re still here for your family. Fighting then (unless it’s a life and death situation) only makes you look guilty and gives them reasons to do what they’re going to do. Don’t help them hurt you. We have too much Technology nowadays to catch things that fighting right then will not help, but possibly make it worse or another life lost.