Iām going to share something that might get me some shit, but Iām just saying exactly how I feel about everything. I guess I'm also curious about how others might feel about this...
Early this morning, I was waiting for my mother to get out of jury duty. I stayed in the car, in the air conditioning most of the time, on my phone.
A man walked up to the car, to which I cracked the window a bit and he asked if he could use my phone. I hesitated, as I have a hard time saying no to people, I told him, āNo, Sir, Iām sorry, but I donāt feel comfortable with you using my phone. In fact, I donāt even let some of my best friends use it. Itās just a very personal item to me.ā
I was rather relieved when he said, āThatās fine, but perhaps I could just tell you the number and you put it on speaker.ā
This whole encounter was okay, except I felt afraid. It wasnāt of this man, but was for the fact that he was a negro man, and due to all the stupid political correctness thatās been going on, I felt afraid to even deny him, a stranger, to use my phone, because I felt that I was going to be called a racist.
The matter of the fact is, it doesnāt matter if this was a white man, a Chinese man, or even a woman, but because of everything that has been happening lately, I feel that Iām going to be labeled a racist because i didnāt trust a stranger to use my phone,na stranger whoās skin colour just happened to be black.
We need to calm down and realize that this race war is obviously a real thing, but I feel that I surely canāt be the only person who is afraid of something like this happening because while something obviously needs to be done about the horrible crimes being committed against the African American community, things are also being blown way, way out of the water on some things.
All lives matter. Stop judging people on the outside. If youāre an officer who is corrupt, stop thinking youāre above the law.
Itās simple, yet itās so very complicated.
