Sean Bell Shooting
May 4, 2008
(agreatvideo)
So, everyone knows about the Sean Bell shooting and the trial that ruled in favor of the police =[
Like most, I was really shocked and disappointed and angry that the murderers got away with shooting 50 or so bullets at a man. Throughout history, we always hear about men who are supposed to protect the people, men who are supposed to make the world a safer place, be hypocrites. Yes, they are HYPOCRITES. They arrest those who shoot innocent people who have done nothing. Yet, they still shot a man because of his skin color. Other examples of misconduct include the Kent State riot in May 1970- the National Guard shot 67 bullets in a barrage lasting 13 seconds upon demonstrators who were protesting the Vietnam War.
What bothered me the most, was the racial factor. It really hurts me, especially being Indian, that the world is still unkind. We still are making the same mistakes over and over again that we made centuries ago. HIstory is supposed to teach us to learn from the past and make sure that such occurrences will never happen again. So, why do people still resent people of diversity? I just cannot seem to understand what those policemen were thinking as they fired those bullets at Sean Bell.
It just really hurts me that innocent people get hurt for being different. Uniqueness is supposed to be celebrated. Not something frowned upon! It’s ignorance. Ignorance is whitewashing the world. && that needs to stop.
Rest in Peace, Sean Bell.
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I’m not going to bother correcting your view of the account of Sean Bell’s killing. I think that would be hopeless.
But I want to comment on the remark about people – you mean Whites – resenting blacks because blacks are people of diversity. Blacks don’t represent diversity. Everyone is supposed to represent diversity. But it’s easy for some groups to lump all Whites together as Whites.
Europeans, Anglos, Nordic people, Slavs – we all have culture too you know. “Whites” are diverse too. And “Whites” have value. That’s one thing blacks don’t respect – “Whites.” And that’s why people like me continue to be hateful and as violent as we can be against blacks – your diversity people.
Just so you know.