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Everywhere in my media feeds news about #Ferguson I'm reminded what a unsettling world we live in...
I see news on the #FergusonDecision and riots and then random happy tidbits of unrelated news, like Bethany Mota is out of Dancing with the Stars or tips for people getting their Christmas shopping done, and I can't comprehend how they can both be real at the same time. Here we're reminded injustice does occur in the world and close to our homes (relatively speaking), events that can push even the most rational people towards drastic and severe means of retaliation...
When these events take place, I find myself hoping so hard that it becomes a learning moment for the next generation. That we CAN be better as a species. That we can co-exist under the great label "humans", or even just fleshy moving skeletons! Because when it really comes down to it, that's all we are.
We claim that we are the superior mammals, the highest intelligence on Earth, the most civilized era.
When will we start acting on those claims?
I see news on the #FergusonDecision and riots and then random happy tidbits of unrelated news, like Bethany Mota is out of Dancing with the Stars or tips for people getting their Christmas shopping done, and I can't comprehend how they can both be real at the same time. Here we're reminded injustice does occur in the world and close to our homes (relatively speaking), events that can push even the most rational people towards drastic and severe means of retaliation...
When these events take place, I find myself hoping so hard that it becomes a learning moment for the next generation. That we CAN be better as a species. That we can co-exist under the great label "humans", or even just fleshy moving skeletons! Because when it really comes down to it, that's all we are.
We claim that we are the superior mammals, the highest intelligence on Earth, the most civilized era.
When will we start acting on those claims?
Year Start!
Time for a new new year journal entry!
I hope everyone had a good new years eve, that there were very few hangovers going into the new year, and that the first day treated you with the same courtesy you give to someone you just met.
I don't know what the year will bring, but I encourage you (and myself) to employ an art philosophy this year conveyed to me by a wise friend:
Screw it.
Seriously. Screw it.
Is it bad? Who cares!
Has it been done already? Probably, but who cares! Give it your own spin!
Scared that someone won't like it? Who cares! Draw it anyway!
Scared your proportions are off? Background looks like a last minute slap
MyWeekThroughArt
How was yours? (:
Another Art Raffle worth entering!
TheCecile (https://www.deviantart.com/thececile) is holding an art raffle to celebrate +2k watchers (which in all honesty they deserve have you seen their art??)
Gorgeous~
The rules applied include watching her, which might be off putting to some, but in all honesty is well worth the prizes she's offering!
Raffle details are below! May the odds be in my favour~
Cute raffle to enter~
The adorable whitepaperrabbits (https://www.deviantart.com/whitepaperrabbits) is holding a raffle and I just had to enter~ Go visit her journal for the details!
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Well, to be fair, if I was a cop, and a person who matched the exact description of a wanted man at the time (heavy-set African-american male wearing orange socks and a yellow shirt: facts the prosecution brought forth, at that.) wandering in the middle of the street holding the very thing he was alleged to have stolen, I might become suspicious, regardless of ethnicity. When said person then charges me and reaches for my weapon, what possible choice do I have but to eliminate him as a threat? He was shot in the shoulder going down, and in the top of the head. This is not consistent with someone with his hands up, this is someone who is bull-rushing the shooter, which is what was police alleged from the get-go.
I don't think Ferguson is a good example of racial profiling, it's a good example of mass ignorance. CNN has an interviewer with a protester who outright said they didn't care about the facts of the case.
And not that I'm the sort of person to look at such things, but I think the African-American community makes a bad name for itself when an obvious criminal gets shot by a Caucasian police officer and they riot, burning down fourteen minority-owned businesses in the process. The message kind of "racial profiling is bad" gets lost when wanton destruction of property is concerned.
Also, just to be clear: I 100% agree that profiling does occur in the U.S., I just think this was clearly not a case of it, and everyone in the media who pointed to it as such is being at best sensationalist, and at worst outright dishonest about the facts of the case.
I don't think Ferguson is a good example of racial profiling, it's a good example of mass ignorance. CNN has an interviewer with a protester who outright said they didn't care about the facts of the case.
And not that I'm the sort of person to look at such things, but I think the African-American community makes a bad name for itself when an obvious criminal gets shot by a Caucasian police officer and they riot, burning down fourteen minority-owned businesses in the process. The message kind of "racial profiling is bad" gets lost when wanton destruction of property is concerned.
Also, just to be clear: I 100% agree that profiling does occur in the U.S., I just think this was clearly not a case of it, and everyone in the media who pointed to it as such is being at best sensationalist, and at worst outright dishonest about the facts of the case.