Don't turn the world over

Michael Brown seems to be all the rage these days.  Meaning that the rage of parts of the country are being collected in a small suburb of a big city.  Michael Brown seems to be deceased  because he was doing something that is outside of the realm of good character.  His killer may not be innocent but the large boy isn't innocent either.  He seems to be famous because his friend and accomplice lied about how he was behaving.  Facts and other people's perspectives may turn out to be very stubborn for Michael Brown's side kick.

But alas, I don't care about that.  I don't care that a kid might die.  I don't even worry about innocent kids dying all that much.  And I don't think that those people are who are protesting, looting, and rioting do either.  Because I know several cops.  Most cops are decent people who don't want to shoot ever.  We all know cops.  Or should.  We all know someone who wears a badge in order to serve and protect.  We know that most, 90%, 80%, 95% are good men and women of high character.  We know that the protesting, looting, and rioting are in some way telling the world that they are not most that way.

Granted some cops are evil.  The majority are not but let's at least entertain the ev
il in a handful of cops as a possibility.  Well prosecute those cops one at a time.  But cops are not bad.  A cop may be bad one time.  But people who are looting, rioting, and protesting are telling their children black and white subconsciously that cops are evil. Stop it.  You're turning the world upside down.

Don't believe cops are good?  The instigation of violence that has been done of the streets of MO this week has taken the patience of Job to not respond to.  I submit to you that the only reason you feel safe to riot and loot is because you know that cops are good.  Otherwise you'd try other tactics that might not get you killed for 'peacefully protesting.'  If they do end up shooting at someone because they have a gun, things may get really messy but not because they're bad, it's because the bad are instigating evil and they want the cops to react badly.  That is not their nature even if it's one of their natures.

Don't believe you're teaching your children badly?  Everyone needs to make it clear to their kids if they're heading to Ferguson or if they're watching or blogging or whatever, that cops are good.  Don't teach them that if you're black you have to act meek around cops because of their structural racism.  Don't teach them that it's the cops being racist that started this.  Don't teach them that it's wrong for cops to stop more blacks than whites.  Teach them that cops are supposed to serve and protect and God willing they will.   Teach them that goodness and innocence aren't the enemies of police but that evil and hate are their foes.  Don't teach them they use oppression but they fight oppression.  The more we honor and respect the 90% true the closer we can push it to 100%.  For if you teach that something that almost never happens is the truth then you'll have a world that believes in the upside down world.

Don't turn the world over.  It's impossible to walk.  Don't turn the world over.  It's impossible to walk.  The world becomes less navigable when it’s upside down.  The truth looks wrong when your worldview is upside down.  When you see an unarmed man shot in an upside down world you might leap to the conclusion that the cop was racist or that the protesters are protesting the military tactics of the police.  Pretty soon there is no justice and no peace BECAUSE hundreds or thousands are traveling to the city to say there isn't.