We Look not at Their Cause, but at Their Flaws

   It began as a pressuring: We will be here until something is done about police violence. We will march and protest until Black lives are no longer so jeopardized. It was to be a cry for help until help would be offered.
   It is no more that.
  On day one, it seemed everyone in America was galvanized against police violence. Something must be done, the nation cried. The outrage in the homes of America matched the outrage in the streets.
   Then, with more vandalism and violence, the perception of what was going on changed. Instead of seeing it as an accounting, a moment that we must account for what we would do to change things, it became simply a pageantry of two sides pitted against each other.
   It became a war instead of an accounting.
   We no longer thought so much on what measures we should take to bring an end to police violence. Instead, we focused on whether the protesters had the right to be there and whether they were going about their protesting in the right way. Instead of being united in the thought that something should be done to end police violence, we divided into two sides arguing over who were the good guys, the protesters or the police.
   When you find a flaw -- violence and vandalism -- in those who have a cause, you can attack the cause itself, you can question whether the cause itself is just.
   And, yet it is. It is a just cause. It was just when it started and it remains just now. But, our eyes are being directed to look not at the cause, itself, but instead at the violence and vandalism of those who carry the cause.
   Our eyes are being diverted. We are looking from what need to be done, to what is wrong with those who are asking that something be done.