It is “a truth” that some police officers are violent with innocent people. It is not “the truth” that policemen are arbitrarily violent with innocents.
It is also true that if a person repeatedly shows violence, that person is violent. Nothing that we think can change that.
As humans, we want our own truth to be “the” truth. No, specificity is the only real truth. Generalizations do no justice to anyone or even to our own selves.
Isn’t that why freedom is so important in this world? Not just here in America, but everywhere. We don’t want to be generalized, we want our own individual chance to demonstrate our choices. And yet there are those who will close their mind to the possibility of goodness in others. It is not okay to be this, it is not okay to do this.
