What kind of friend are you?

What kind of friend are you?

It's funny how especially in these last 4 years we've didn't really know who our friends were.

Friends that you've had for years, friends that you thought you knew, now you have no idea who the hell they are. In these last 4 years but especially in this last year, we've come to realize who people truly are, what people really stand for, what morals or lack of morals people actually have and I have to tell you it's really sad to me.

Especially because so many of these friends were the ones that I grew up with, in a neighborhood that was multicultural. Ours was a small town but it was pretty progressive as far as small towns go because we had many different families. We had interracial familes, we had gay familes, we knew many drag queens, and many, many people of different ethnicities and religions so this behavior really shocks me.

I didn't realize how many people were closeted racists, even friends who had best friends who were black seem to have forgotten this fact or have no clue what is truly going on in this world for their friends of color.

I have debated with them as they sit on their high horse, in their rich white neighborhoods staring facts of numbers to me, as if that matters to our black friends that have to live through this injustice every day. What do they know about what it truly means to be black in today's world? Obviously not a frigging thing as you listen to them talk.

I ask them, are they afraid when they get pulled over by police for a routine speeding ticket? Do they teach their children what to say and do to police if and when they get stopped because they are afraid their children will be killed? Do they have any idea what it's like growing up where people hate you only because of the color of your skin? Do they know of the injustice that so many black people had to go through, their grandparents and great grandparents had to endure, held in slavery and segregation?

No, they know nothing of this and even though I did not grow up black, many of my friends did. I may have not personally have gone through these things but I can personally say I witnessed them on a daily basis while I was with them. So then my question becomes if you have black friends and you witness these kinds of injustices how can you still preach this nonsense of "if they only listen to the police" or throw these statistics out there and still think this is not a problem for so many people of color?

I do not have to live in a third world country without running water to sympathize with people who do. I do not need to be in a country where there is a  dictatorship, to feel for people who cannot speak their opinions. So why then is it so hard to understand what so many black people are going through in this country? I am shocked that this is so hard for people, that people cannot just put themselves in another's shoes especially when those shoes are on the feet of your "so called" friends.

It is quite obvious to me that you lack compassion, that you have no moral compass and that you are not a true friend if you can feel this way. There is no way you can even be called human when you are arguing about statistics when your friends, hell not even your friends, just other human beings are being killed or are afraid for their lives on a daily basis and you cannot feel for them.

I am mad, mad as hell that people cannot see this for what it truly is, pure racism at its finest. If you don't stand up, if you don't speak out, if you're not mad as hell then you my friend are the problem. You cannot live in your big house, in your rich white neighborhoods and preach to me that everything is just fine in this country because it is not.

Either you are part of the solution or you are part of the problem, simple as that.

So today my "friends" this message is for you to open your eyes and see this from your "so called" friends perspective. Talk to them, listen to how they are afraid, to what they go through. Listen to how it is for them on a daily basis to be black in this country because if you truly hear them then you will change your tune. And if that doesn't change you then you aren't truly a friend, and in my book that doesn't even qualify you as a human being and I feel sorry for you.

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