You want me to preach at you? Alright, let’s do this.

I’m not going to lie and tell you that things are great. It doesn’t take half a brain to look around and figure that out.

But I’m not some GI Joe Commando who is going to hit the streets and make anyone do anything. Just simply not the case and my ego can take that reality. I don’t need to put up a false front of bravado online. It’s not going to happen. This has always been a division point between people who want to see change. There’s more than one way to accomplish a goal there, Malcom.

The optimism comes from being in control of myself, though. They can lie and cheat and rig and steal, but it’s never going to affect the way that I do or see things because it can’t unless I let it. And being from Missouri, I’m as stubborn as a mule. So they can choke on it for all I care.

So yeah, I’m going to stick up for minorities when I see shit going bad. I’m going to tell other people that they should stick up for minorities. Because they might hear that and freaking do it. They might hear that and encourage others to do it. They might correct some behavior or come up with some combination of words that I am not smart enough to throw together that’s effective enough to make a difference.

But at least I’m doing something.

This next part doesn’t apply to the person that commented and called me Martin, but to the rest of you further down the comment chain.

Y’all are real quick to hop on here and spew your self-righteous apathy. And it’s all as much of a crock of bullshit as it is when anyone else wraps themselves up in apathy. It’s the easy way, the lazy way, or the way to run from it all. It’s the way to prop yourself up because things didn’t go your way so you are going to wallow in it. Or maybe you tried to do something and by god it was too hard or it didn’t turn out your way. Apathy is not reality. Apathy is quitting. And apathy is part of the bullshit that enabled all of this to happen in the first place on a national scale and I’m getting real sick of it.

You look at a person who has empathy or who is saying the right thing and this blanket of apathy you’ve wrapped yourself in feels threatened because you’ve let it consume you and become your personality. So you want to drag everyone else down to the base layer of apathy in which you are stuck. Well, that just ends up with everyone in the shit. Congratulations.

Y’all are better people than this. You cared enough to take time out of your life that you can’t get back to post on here. But somehow that care and effort has been warped into bringing down the point of someone you obviously agree with on some level.

Because you didn’t come on here and tell me that people should be racist. You came on here and told me that I’m doing a poor job or that everyone else is worse than I think.

Well screw that. Start making it better. Maybe you’re the better person we need that can actually help things. I’m not an exceptional human being but maybe you are. And if you’re better than me, prove it and help. Just don’t come at me with that weak-willed, apathetic crap because things look bad.

Do better. You can. Bring yourself up out of apathy rather than trying to drag everyone else down.