The Black and Blue of the Republican National Convention

When I watched the freak show that was Republican National Convention, I laughed, I cried, I was freaked the fuck out but what could be described as "Vote for Trump or the United States is doomed!". Through all of the insanity, one person made me feel anger and sadness in the same beat. On the first night of RNC, Milwaukee Police sheriff David A. Clarke gave a speech, starting it with the phrase "I just want to start off and say Blue Lives Matter". Yeah, it's going to be that kind of blog.

Now let it be known, I don't hate the police. I have an uncle whose a retired policeman and I love him. I also don't think all police are racist but I do think the bad, racist police and justice system are outweighing the opposite. What needs to be done is for any aspect of those who believe in fair justice for all to come out and disassociate themselves from those who are openly in the wrong doing and work towards having those who believe in the opposite removed.

Sheriff David Clarke goes on to spit his rhetoric of putting down #BlackLivesMatter, a peaceful protest group that supports the idea of bringing attention to those African Americans whose lives were taken by the law enforcement unjustly. He then goes on to say to say something infuriated me so much, I'm surprised I didn't pull an Elvis and shoot my television. He goes on to say "But there is some good news out of Baltimore, Maryland. Lt. Ryan Wyss was acquitted of charges in the malicious prosecution of activist states attorney Marilyn Mosby." This was affiliated with the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody, sustaining injuries that could be seen as a severed spine while handcuffed in the back of a police car.

After I had the chance to calm down, after breaking a few twigs outside, I continued to "watch" the rest of the event (honestly, was most likely playing Super Fire Pro Wrestling) and yes, I heard Melania Trump copy Michelle Obama's speech and just laughed it off. All I could think of David A. Clarke's speech and how much it infuriated me. I just keep wondering to myself how can David A. Clarke sleep at night saying what he said, thinking what he thinks. He tries to put black on black crime over police murdering black people and getting away with it. I'd love to know how he feels about the cases of Philando Castile, a man shot and killed in his car w by police while his girlfriend and daughter watched and Charles Kinsey, a man shot by a policeman while trying to help an autistic man from the hospital he worked at.

I always wonder what goes on in the brains of people like him, seeing the increasing evidence of racist police harming and murdering people of color but seem like they're in denial about racism and abuse of power.

Then again, a couple of nights later, a man from "Muslims for Trump" spoke at RNC so, God only knows...