I’m right here, six hours away from Dallas in Corpus Christi… and at Chipotle the police officer next to me couldn’t even get a bite in cause every body wanted to show appreciation for him in the community.

I watch the news more than I should and I’ve read our country’s history and I can point to several chapters where things were sour, ugly, or went wrong (Slavery’s Middle Passage, Jackson’s Indian Wars, Japanese Internment Camps, et cetera, et cetera) but I can’t think of a single instance where our cops have to pay with their lives for the sins of their fathers or for the actions of another cop halfway across the country.

I understand many black folks have historically had it rough and many of them live in poor communities where police most likely have a different approach than the one at the gated golf course neighborhood, but I reject the notion that police brutality is an issue drawn strictly on racial lines, or that Law Enforcement thinks an entire demographic’s lives don’t matter.

Recent events we’ve had to witness around the country are disconcerting and strike at the core of who we are as a society, but I believe that this testing moment in American history will be overcome and the system will suffer glitches and collapses if necessary but ultimately evolve into whatever can sustain it before we can readjust back into normalcy.

In a perfect world, many of the issues that now surfaced in their ugliest forms could’ve been addressed earlier in our history in much more pleasant ways, yet here we are. Our generation didn’t make many of the decisions that led to these messes, we just inherited the consequences.

I personally can’t say I’m going to singlehandedly fix it all but if I can do something to make things better, I’ll do my part.