My heart is in shreds.
My eyelashes are so soaked with tears that lines of black mascara slide rapidly down my face.
I cannot breathe.
My days are usually filled with a search to find the joy in each moment. I simply cannot do that today.
You see, last night there was a shooting at a church in Charleston. Nine people were killed, NINE.
I do not know what to do. I am lost. I am lost because I cannot even begin to comprehend why people believe themselves to be better than others and why we treat each other with hatred instead of love. My brain does not even begin to wrap around this heart wrenching tragedy that is spreading BACK across our country like wildfire.
Why. Why. Whywhywhywhywhy.
I demand to know how any one person could think themselves greater than their neighbor. I demand to know why I continue to see violent killings flashing across my television screen in the morning. I demand to know why any person in the country should be treated less than human, less than a mother, brother, sister, father, friend. I demand, yes, I demand, to know why there is only a portion of the population standing up against the terror that is poisoning our country.
I love the United States, anyone who knows me, knows that I am proud of the fifty stars and thirteen stripes on that red, white, and blue flag. But I sure as hell am not proud of the way those fifty stars are letting our country fall in to a vortex of violence, hatred, and murder.
I demand to know who on God's green earth believes themselves to be perfect, to be without a flaw, and to have the right to decide other people's fate. If that is you, cast the first damn stone, but I can assure that there is no one on this planet that can be bold enough or dumb enough to make that statement. I will never, and I mean never, stop crying and stop feeling the weight of my broken heart, because nothing we do can repair what evil has passed over our country. But, what we can do is demand that we change the way we are dealing with this. I do not want to see another news cast about the lost of my brother or sister, I want to see, no I demand to see change.
My heart and prayers go out to Charleston, all the families that have suffered an unexplainable, incalculable, and uncalled for loss. My prayers also go out to this country, that we may once again be United to share the joys of freedom and liberty, together.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My eyelashes are so soaked with tears that lines of black mascara slide rapidly down my face.
I cannot breathe.
My days are usually filled with a search to find the joy in each moment. I simply cannot do that today.
You see, last night there was a shooting at a church in Charleston. Nine people were killed, NINE.
I do not know what to do. I am lost. I am lost because I cannot even begin to comprehend why people believe themselves to be better than others and why we treat each other with hatred instead of love. My brain does not even begin to wrap around this heart wrenching tragedy that is spreading BACK across our country like wildfire.
Why. Why. Whywhywhywhywhy.
I demand to know how any one person could think themselves greater than their neighbor. I demand to know why I continue to see violent killings flashing across my television screen in the morning. I demand to know why any person in the country should be treated less than human, less than a mother, brother, sister, father, friend. I demand, yes, I demand, to know why there is only a portion of the population standing up against the terror that is poisoning our country.
I love the United States, anyone who knows me, knows that I am proud of the fifty stars and thirteen stripes on that red, white, and blue flag. But I sure as hell am not proud of the way those fifty stars are letting our country fall in to a vortex of violence, hatred, and murder.
I demand to know who on God's green earth believes themselves to be perfect, to be without a flaw, and to have the right to decide other people's fate. If that is you, cast the first damn stone, but I can assure that there is no one on this planet that can be bold enough or dumb enough to make that statement. I will never, and I mean never, stop crying and stop feeling the weight of my broken heart, because nothing we do can repair what evil has passed over our country. But, what we can do is demand that we change the way we are dealing with this. I do not want to see another news cast about the lost of my brother or sister, I want to see, no I demand to see change.
My heart and prayers go out to Charleston, all the families that have suffered an unexplainable, incalculable, and uncalled for loss. My prayers also go out to this country, that we may once again be United to share the joys of freedom and liberty, together.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.