Dear Black People,

I’m sorry.

I’m sorry you’ve been clumped in with Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA.

I’m sorry first responders aren’t able to reach your neighborhoods.

I’m sorry you have to be afraid of walking down your block.

I’m sorry you’re afraid to hang an American flag outside your home.

I’m sorry that so many people think they know you because they see the color of your skin.

I’m sorry that you are belittled and demeaned by self-pitying, self-righteous individuals who come to destroy your communities while proclaiming they have compassion.

I’m sorry your communities have been burned and destroyed.

I’m sorry that “segregation” has reintroduced itself into our modern times.

I’m sorry that the pressure you felt from the world looking at you and thinking they know your story has risen to a level that feels like you’re holding the sky up.

I’m sorry for every immature person who came to you and gave you a handout because “you look a certain way.”

I’m sorry that these people who are so culturally secluded that they are incapable of acting in a socially acceptable way in front of someone different than them believe that they are the ones who will free you from your “inequity”

But most of all, I’m sorry that you are once again in American history being referred to anything other than what you truly are, which is AMERICAN.

Don’t listen to those demeaning, self-righteous blowhards who think they owe you, as if you were too incompetent and disabled to work hard and gain it for yourself with pride. Don’t take their handouts that they stole and squandered from the people around them.

As a fellow American who happens to be white, I HATE THEM TOO!

But I also pity them. I pity their ignorance. I pity their misguided attempts to be a part of something bigger than them. Don’t we all want to make a difference? Don’t we all want to do something significant with their lives? Imagine if they used their energy to fight slavery in other countries, fought for women’s rights in other countries, or even fought against the global human trafficking! They’re all deceived by the lies that you are incapable, unprivileged, oppressed, and hunted. Through their pursuit to find someone to blame, they made idols of rapists, violent offenders, druggies, and all sorts of criminals while squashing the lives of people who are also trying to bring good into the world and protect us from those who would destroy our livelihoods.

But most of all, I pity them because they have become what they want to destroy...

Bigoted

Idiotic

Racists

Sincerely,

A Fellow American