The power of prayer

Two black guys shot by cops.  One by a white lady in Tulsa, OK.  The other by a black guy in Charlotte, NC.  Now, our police shoot a lot of people and for some reason, the media only ever talks about the black victims but I've covered that more than once so you know where I stand on media bias.  What I want to talk about is the public reaction to these two events.

Tulsa prayed.  Charlotte burned.

Sure both incidents provided fodder for the racist trolls on social media and their vitriol was extra nasty.  White folks droning on about how blue lives matter.  Black folks droning on about how white folks need to die.  Neither side offering any solutions.  Do they ever?

But Tulsa prayed and Charlotte burned.  Why?

The black guy shot by the white cop got a peaceful protest where both black and white folks held hands and urged the city to do the right thing and prayed for those affected.  It worked because the cop was arrested and faces manslaughter charges.  Odds look good, she'll be convicted but even if she gets a lesser sentence, the victims got SOMETHING.

The black guy shot by the black cop got violence.  Protesters looting and attacking random white people cuz white people are to blame even though the officer was black.  There was no unity in Charlotte.  There was only let's get whitey and whitey didn't even do the shooting.  Days of violence and what do they have to show for it?  As I write this, the officer has not been charged, the video of the event has not been released and a state of emergency (read martial law) has been declared.  In all likelihood, the officer will get off on principle.

Violence doesn't work.  How many times have you dumbasses burnt down your neighborhood only for NOTHING to change?  Violence only drives people away from your cause.  I don't just mean white people.  Violence makes you look bad.  Like violent thugs that no one is safe around.  Stereotypes exist for a reason.  You embody that stereotype every time you go on a riot.  You need our help.  You need our support, but you're violent.  We can't trust that you won't harm us and so we keep away from you.

There will be justice in Tulsa because they chose to pray.  They chose not to go on a rampage and it WORKED.  We felt their pain.  We responded.

No.  Non blacks are not some benevolent benefactors to the black race.  None of us, not even white people.  I'm not saying any of this to make you think that.  I am telling you unequivocally that if you want EQUALITY you have to GET ALONG with the rest of us.  You can't be racist and you are.  You can't demonize white people and you are.  You can't demonize Asians and you've done that for decades.  I still don't know what you have against Asians, but you get the idea.

Equality is not getting revenge.  Equality is putting the past behind you and working along side the rest of us to build a better world.  Everyone.  Even white people.

If you can't do that, you're not going to get equality.  You're going to get people who don't trust you and who eventually stop bothering with you.

Prayer saved Tulsa.  I don't care your opinions on the validity of God.  They came together, they prayed and they got justice without violence.  Charlotte let the BLM lot guide the conversation.  They brought hate to the table and lost sympathy when they needed it the most.

Pray before you slay, yall.