Protests

So, with being a single parent, how are able to work? Maybe we had to be let go due to business being shut down, maybe we got fired due to schools and childcare being shut down. Whatever the case may be we are struggling in trying to figure out how to care for our children with making sure they have food and a roof over their head as well as making sure we can pay for electricity.

I have been fortunate to get child support to help with some of these bills but not a lot of single parents have that. No matter the reason everyone is struggling, and with us trying to go back to work, what are we to do with our children if the childcare centers and schools are closed?

Now with all the riots, one stupid decision has made opening up the states even harder and longer. Due to the officers thinking George Floyd was a piece of trash when he was not, people started to all come out on the streets to riot and disregard the social distancing which in effect could cause a surge in cases causing the governors across the US to shut the states back down again causing everyone to struggle even more. Due to how bad the riots have been, the governors decided to call the national guards for the first time since 1984 for Oregon, in Minnesota, the first time since WWII. You know, when the national guards are brought in due to the man-made disasters that are happening, you know that these riots have gotten out of control and have gone too far. Let me ask you this, are the protests worth all the harm?

I understand that everyone is pissed, I get that, it is OK to be pissed but to destroy property? You can protest without the violence. I understand people are protesting the police brutality, but as I was taught and maybe a lot of other people have been taught, two wrongs never make a right. Be the bigger person by protesting peacefully, there are police officers who are not in that category. However, people look at one act made by four men’s choices to behave badly, in a sense retaliating to all the police departments across the US, and maybe across the globe, and honestly - that is not fair. How would you feel if someone you knew did something that everyone around you despised, and due to some relation to this person everyone looked at you the same? Or even vandalized your property? You would feel different because it is affecting you directly. We are trying to be safe in a pandemic, and people run out on the streets destroying properties disregarding the safety of people because they are pissed. You wanna protest? Protest virtually, peacefully, and without destroying anything. Words have power, use them.

If you guys look here and think that i agree with police brutality, then you would be wrong. I am a child of a white mother and a black father. So when I hear racially derogatory remarks, and insults; I get pissed, but instead of destroying someone’s livelihood, I vent to my friends and families. A good friend of mine stood on the corner street with signs protesting, and all they did was hold signs on a corner street. She did not destroy anything, but you knew how she felt about it.

So, If you think that I don't care, I do. I just do my protesting differently and in a way that does not put my child at risk or harm others.