Originally Posted by graciegirl

No. You are right.

But I sit here thinking that I have never been arrested and put in jail...ever. And you probably have not either. I am thinking that your life has been made up of many choices and many times you have acted or not acted or performed diligent work when it was not fun and not easy or not interesting. You and I have somehow failed to do things that broke the law.

And I say this. If George Floyd would have done and not done things similarly to what we have done and not done, he would be alive. If your lifestyle puts you in a position where you are drunk, have a record and are resisting arrest, you do not deserve to die assuredly, but you are living dangerously and causing others to react to restrain you.

Sister said...do not put yourself in "near occasion of sin".

Your mother said. "If everybody else jumped off a cliff, would you do it too???"

Your dad said. "I told you to stay out of their yard and it may be just one apple, but it is not yours."

The clerk at that store said; "He was in here earlier with two other guys who used a counterfeit bill and we gave it back to them and then this guy comes in later and uses a counterfeit twenty to try to buy cigarettes and we called the police".

His record said that he had broken into a home and held a gun at the belly of a pregnant woman and together with others stole from her.

I have never done that. But I have been young and in a situation that I needed money to live. So I worked at first at menial jobs. In the forties or fifties you turned 18 and you were expected to work because your folks didn't have money for you to go to college. Many of us climbed the ladder without stealing and ending up under the knee of a police officer.