In California people are rioting after Oscar Grant was shot in the back while being pinned down by a police officer on New Years Day. Nothing like capping an innocent black man in the back while being filmed by onlookers with their cell phone cameras in a busy subway station. In the video you can clearly see one officer pin the man down with his knee while another stands above him, draws his firearm and fire off a round into Grants back. So far an investigation into Grants slaying has not produced any kind of valid reason for why this horrendous crime occurred. I'm sure that this will be just one more incident of an innocent black man being shot for reasons unknown and will be swept under the carpet by the authorities and the media as soon as it is convenient to do so. There may be more to the story but after watching the video, it is apparent to anyone with a functioning brain that the use of deadly force in this incident was completely uncalled for. Grant left behind a 4 year old daughter and his family is now filing a lawsuit of twenty five million dollars. What I think is most unfortunate about this situation is it clearly shows that racial profiling and paranoia still run rampant among the authorities here in this country. It seems that simply being a black man can still be enough to get you killed for no reason.
Looking back at things a previous version of yourself has written can say a lot about how a person develops. I have gone back and read some of my earlier posts on this blog and I am surprised at how much further I have moved forward in my life as a person. I feel that I can articulate myself much more efficiently and don't rely so much on cliche modes of speech or resorting to using obscenities to punctuate how I feel towards certain things. I have either deleted or reverted a lot of my posts back to drafts because at this point I can't read much of them and not cringe. I have done a lot of things with my life over the last fifteen years since I started this blog. I mainly meant to create it as a mental scrapbook, something I could look back on and maybe be a little proud of. I felt pretty much the exact opposite. I really came off as negative and focusing on things that while being important, I had little or no control over. I have come to realize that the world I live in can ...
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