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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
They do matter. And until everyone is on board with that fact, "all" lives will not yet matter.
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My problem with statements like this from certain groups is not that I don't agree with them, but they are very idealistic and lacking in realism. Most humans in today's world are far more able to see people as people because of the overwhelming information we are shown and absorb.
Those who grew up in multi-diverse heavily populated areas and those who grew up in areas of relatively low crime have completely different life experiences.
I moved here from Cincinnati after living on a street with many ethnicities, BUT they were all employed by General Electric or Proctor and Gamble or The Lakota School System and made quite a bit of money. The area where I was a child had no murder committed in my whole going to school time. We did have drunks and domestic abuse.
I was called a liar by my next door neighbor in Hadley when I told him that. He was a cop from the Bronx. And he wasn't like any police officer I had ever known or either of the two family members who were life long police officer or like the dads of kids in my class who were police officers. Most of us have had very different life experiences so we can't be lecturing others thinking we walked in their shoes.
I have changed from one way of "thinking" as a young person to another way of "thinking" as an older person who has travelled through being poor and very unrealistic to being financially secure. And like most people, after weathering many serious storms including cancer and death of people I love and observing heartbreak and awful things that happened to friends. I am a realist now and I try very hard to see things as they ARE and not some unrealistic dream that can never be real life, no matter how we want it to be. I ask many questions as to WHY some survive and prosper and some do not. I know that we are not all born equal. AND we cannot legislate morality. If we ban guns, the bad guys will still have guns. If we give people what others work hard for there will be resentment at the very least. We do not do enough for the truly disabled and there are scams out there to the hopeful including college for folks who are learning disabled and not really capable to going to college. We all wish for dreams that will not and cannot be realized. WE MUST SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE.