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Hate Crimes Against African Americans Must Stop

You have to realize that hate is everywhere.

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Hate Crimes Against African Americans Must Stop
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Recently, an African American woman, Mia Frias-Russell from Campsbellburg, Indiana was just minding her own business and woke up to the "n-word" spray painted on her car and on her shed. The suspect even managed to put sugar in her gas tank and the story went viral after she showed the vandalism on a live Facebook video.

I mean come on, Frias-Russell is a single mother trying to take care of her kids and she does not have many friends in her city. Now, someone's hate crime caused her to fear for her life as well as the safety of her kids. You could even see the fear in her eyes clear as day. Frias-Russell was so distraught after the event that she went to live with her parents.

Another tragic news story that caught my eye was the shooting of Charles Kinsley. The man was just trying to do his job as a behavioral therapist and bring his autistic patient back to the group home. There are plenty of reasons of why everything went wrong after the police intervened.

First of all, someone called the police claiming there was a gun involved. However, there was no gun involved. How does a person confuse a toy firetruck with a gun? I'm pretty sure anyone can tell the difference between a gun and a toy truck.

Why didn't anyone go see what was actually going on before calling the police? That probably would have helped the situation.

Second of all, the police officer shot the therapist who had his hands up and said "Don't shoot." He had his hands up and still got shot. After shooting Kinsey, the officer admitted that he didn't even know why he shot him.

That officer shouldn't even be on the police force. Then the police force covered up for him saying that he was aiming for the autistic man. That doesn't make anything better. You don't know whats going on. You can't just walk up on the scene and start shooting. Who does that? Inexperience cops.

Now the autistic man is traumatized and for what? Because a cop didn't know how to handle his job properly? Cops shooting innocent people for no reason and not even knowing the situation is also a form of hate that needs to stop.

Racism has got to come to an end.We are all human beings and we all have a purpose. Why make life harder for a person who is already struggling to get by? We all eat, sleep, and work. We all try to make a living for ourselves.

Even God's Ten Commandments list this: Love thy neighbor. Hate crimes achieve the complete opposite. We need to love each other and put a stop to this hatred. Also a little prayer wouldn't hurt either. Why can't we help one another and use love to build each other up?

Once again we need to keep our world in prayer, build each other up, and love one another.

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