Divided By Race United By Pain Analysis

After reading Divided by Race, United by Pain. I have so many strong thoughts and feelings about what happen in these three states. First I will like to say I am disappointed in my black community. When it comes to protesting about police brutality it should not be done in a negative way. There is no need to riot with guns, bats and other weapons. How can we expect to be heard if we are trying to resolve violence with violence. Over the past few years there has been an ongoing war between the blacks and white police officers. Therefore I am not surprised about what happen to the five police officers in Dallas. As for the other two fatal shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota it saddens me that police brutality continues to be a cycle. Police …show more content…
Furthermore, having police officers by their sides is a great way to start bridging the gap between the people and policemen. At the start of the article I could not make sense of the title “Divided by Race United by Pain” To me it means we support our race and only our race however when it comes to shootings of any race we can unite because we feel the same …show more content…
Therefore it is time to take a different approach we need to open our mouths and let out voices be heard so that others are aware of our pain. It is hard to be on the outside looking in. However the more awareness this nation has of how black America is treated and is less privilege the closer we are to change. In my opinion I hate when I hear “Black Lives Matter” because “All Lives Matter.” However at this point we need to see that black America are the ones who needs to be brought to the surface because white America sees otherwise The protest in Dallas was a start but we can’t react we must pick ourselves up and continue to be the change that we want to