Society as it is..

     Normally, I HATE talking about controversial topics with anyone. However, I love talking about them with my older sister whom I will refer to as K. She speaks so much truth to me, and I always feel as if I have been enlightened in a new way. The subject of police brutality has become one of those "unspoken rules" where you do not speak about it like politics, abortion and religion. The case that we like to speak about most together is the Alton Sterling case in relations with the shooting of Harambe case.

                                  
                                           
The differences in these memes are disturbing. K made a great point to me about these two cases, let me also add that we are both mothers. "Why are Americans more caught up in trying to justify why a gorilla got shot over a human being? If it were my baby that fell in the cage, I would have yelled SHOOT THAT GORILLA!" How powerful! Why is it that we are more concerned about a gorilla being killed but not a human being? There was an actual person's life in danger with an animal who can take multiple men without even blinking. Alton was only one man, who was being tackled by 2 men, and then shot multiple times in the chest and stomach, but society wants to say that "he shouldn't have evaded arrest".
     All in all, a man who has a gun in an open carry state, evades arrest, and is black, is no reason why a person should be brutally murdered.