I sat in the library on campus today when all of a sudden there was a noise outside the window. I walked over and I saw students marching, banners raised, chanting the words “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” If you have been following the news, or even if you haven’t, you can guess what these students are referring to. It’s a sad, story of an innocent life being taken from us too soon. As sad as it is, Michael Brown’s death has brought attention to a national issue that needed confrontation.
Police brutality and racial profiling are two horrible things, put these issues together and you have too many human lives that were stolen. Murder itself is awful, but when it comes from those that we hope, and so desperately want to believe will protect us, than what? Time after time again, we are proven wrong. By the social injustice of our law enforcement and our court systems. You may chuckle and say, “those are two very flawed systems.” They shouldn’t be. You know it and I know it. You chuckle, but you realize the system works, it just picks favorites. We call it corruption, authorities call it a “flawed system.” And that right there is the harsh reality; the reality that we need to work together to fix.
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