A friend sent this to me and it reverberates.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

I don't riot but I understand.

It’s hard to believe an officer would fire 12 shots at Mike Brown if he weren’t Black. Black life is definitely deemed cheaper. The Cops who killed Mike Brown, shot the 12 yr old black kid in Cleveland who had a toy gun, choked Eric Garner in Staten Island, have been conditioned by society and media not to value black life.

A White friend said in reference to the black kid who got killed in Cleveland this weekend, “Black parents should know better than anyone not to give their kid a BB gun”. My response was, Black parents shouldn’t have to worry about anything White parents don’t have to worry about.

She asked if Mike Brown stole from that connivence store? I said, “I don’t know but if he did it’s not punishable by death. This isn’t the 1700’s”.

I work with white people and I love them. I have amazing friends of different ethnicities. I don’t think they know that most black people walk around everyday pretending life is fair. We are great pretenders. This is just one of the few times some have decided not to. That’s why I understand.

The truth is you have to be really unhappy to riot. Happy people don’t riot. If you live in a good neighborhood, with quality schools, stores, and fair law enforcement you won’t burn it down. Rioters don’t give a fuck about the neighborhoods they live in that’s why they burn them. Most rioters are forced to live in shitty towns by unfair economic practices. Slave masters use to give their slaves the parts of a pig they didn’t want to eat; it’s the same way with minority housing. That’s why I understand.

The same people who celebrate the Boston Tea Party, say people shouldn’t riot, it makes them look like animals. Kudos to rioters who are not afraid of being called names by a bunch of hypocrites. When we don’t riot, unarmed kids get shot by cops, we get treated like animals and called nigga anyways. That's why I understand.

Black people don’t riot at the drop of a dime. We only do it after every two hundredth innocent black person is unjustly killed. It takes a lot for the lid to blow off the pot. It’s also a game. Some people have to riot, so that when our representatives hold talks, the powers that be know we’re serious and are willing to risk our lives for liberty. That's why I understand.

The other day I had the flu. It got worse everyday. I threw up, coughed, blew my snot filled nose till it was sore, and sweat in my sleep. I had to get worse before I got better. Now I’m stronger than ever before. Right now this country has the flu. God bless the rioters who are giving their lives for the correction process. I don’t riot but I understand.