We can Play with Toy Boats, or We can Sail on a Real One

   Not so many breaking police brutality cases are reaching my ear. I strain to remember when I last heard of a protest against a Black person being killed unjustly by police.
  Be that as it may, we should want to root out police violence. I think it unserving to suppose there is no problem. It is the nature and manner of mankind to take authority and use it unjustly. And, that tendency doesn't just disappear because someone is a police officer. Officers are hired from the ranks of humans who therefore have human tendencies.
   That which divides a civilized nation from one that is not, to some degree, is its police. Name a country where people are oppressed, and see if the police there do not abuse their power.
   To whatever degree, then, we fall into being a nation of police brutality, we fall from being a civilized nation. If this is true, we should not take lightly stories of police beating Black people just because they are Black. No, we should not take lightly reports of police wrongly beating anyone -- regardless of their race.
   Our grace as a nation is at stake. The very term, "free nation," is at stake. I wonder at us, and how we pass it all off as playing the race card -- these accusations of police violence against Black people. We can say it doesn't exist, and we can all just run along and play. We can play with our toy boats, or we can hop on the real boat of those trying to do something about it.