He Could Have Been You

He could have been you. Profiled for things you cant control. Harassed and attacked because your skin color differs from that of your attacker. Bleeding out in the street for hours with no one to help after you'd been shot like a wild animal. Your killer being protected; shielded and awarded for taking an innocent life. Your mother and father grieving because your life was unfairly taken. Your friends and family being terrorized for demanding justice for you. Your name being dragged through the mud as a violent criminal as you laid on a medical examiners table not given a judge or a jury but an execution. You could be the young man who would never get to graduate college. Never get to build a family of your own. Never get to live out your purpose because those sworn to protect and serve would rather commit crimes against and hide instead of apologizing for their wrongs and trying to do right. You could have been the one to have your life ended before it even began. And now tell me: would you want the same thing done to you? Would you want people across your country to degrade your life and justify your death? Would you want the city you grew up in to be turned into a war zone? Your local and state police to fire tear gas and bullets on your friends family and strangers who came together peacefully to protest the loss of your uncompleted life? Arrested because they want police to do the right thing and turn in the man who unjustly murdered you in cold blood? Or would you want the right thing done? For justice to be served and your murderer to have his day in court? For all those peaceful protests and rallies to not have been in vain? Think carefully. Because he just as easily could have been you.