#AltonSterling and Other things
This won't get any reads but I live right behind the Triple S where the shooting take place and I'd like to say a few things.
Firstly, even though I used to meet Sterling in passing, I didn't actually know the guy but I recognized him as the guy that sold CD's while BLASTING the music in front of the corner store. I'd never think that those gunshot blasts I heard getting out of the fourth of July would be the ones that finished him off.
I want justice too but I don't want to kill every white person and police officer I see and you got people saying shit like that.
I don't see this as a cop issue or a race issue because that'd be too easy to target, I see it and have always saw it as a class issue.
There's a HUGE class division in East Baton Rouge Parish (another city in Louisiana besides New Orleans, I know, shocking, right?) where the rich people live in South Baton Rouge and the poor live in the North and some people in the South see the people in the North as "thugs" or whatever else they want to say about us.
I wouldn't be surprised if the cops were from South Baton Rouge.
The fact is simple, before this happened, we were already getting picked off and pulled to the side and attacked simply for where we live and where we come from and our side of town was plucked dry of pretty much anything that would mean prosperity on this side. I see it as a result of an economic downturn that the people that live on this side have to survive and are looked at in a horrible light because the methods that they are forced to go through.
I hope those two cops that pinned him down and shot him will face a murder charge but let's face it. All this is doing now is rekindling an already known scenario where black people hate police officers.
And the rich are stacking up off the pain in the end some kind of way.
I love how so far, people have been gathering at the store where he got shot at just to make as much noise as possible, stop traffic (because a corner store is literally at the corner of two streets) to climb on people's cars. But let's be honest, hat's not a protest, that's just being an obnoxious asshole.
It's good to see a lot of people who seemingly never really been out the woodwork actually come together in one big gathering and not kill or fight one another but now it's time for business where people start trying to make the world better for their kids.
And killing cops or being an asshole ain't the way to do it no matter how much it "toughens your kid up".
I'm done with this whole ordeal and I just hope that this will be the thing that makes my neighborhood and all of North Baton Rouge a priority for an economic upbringing. Wouldn't need cops if we had opportunities that didn't involve the stuff that it involved.