Racism? BLOG #6

The latest outburst in this country is the shooting of a man name Michael Brown by a police officer, Darren Wilson.  As known racism has always been a problem in America since slavery was abolished, but is racism the answer to everything that happens between two different races?  

As far as I know, Michael Brown robbed a store and Wilson tried to make him stay still.  Brown disrespected the authority and did not listen and forensics files show that Browns DNA was found inside the cop car. " Wilson, who is white, claimed Brown, who is black, tried to grab his gun and that he was forced to shoot the unarmed teen after Brown charged him. Some witnesses claimed Brown had his hands up when he was shot. The shooting ignited controversy and protests across the country and a discussion over race and policing." (nbcnews.com).  It is hard to trust the eye-witnesses because many perceptions are deceived.  Now I personally don't believe that it was necessary to kill Brown.  Was Wilson a racist? Or was it just self-defense?  Wilson also claimed that he was scared at the time.  We will never know if we have the right story but my opinion is that Wilson had to shoot Brown because of his actions toward an authoritative figure.  I don't believe that racism played a role in this.  If someone was coming after your trying to grab your gun.. what would you ?  Yea, maybe Wilson could've shot Brown in the leg to stop his action, but what if he couldn't think straight and needed to stop this kid from killing him?  I guess we will never actually know.

An outburst of riots was a result from this event.  Even the parents of Browns want the riots to stop.  What if a black officer shot and killed a black kid? These riots wouldn't be happening.  Since racism has always been a problem, everyone assumes that everything is based off of racism. But how would we ever know ??????

This event made me think of a similar one that took place in Ohio.  Two white officers killed a man because he had a sword and took it out as if he was going to hurt the officers with it.  There were many different opinions in this event.  The family of the black man are convinced that it was because of racism. 

Personally, I don't know what to think of these situations.  Is racism real or just an excuse?