Controversy

Americans love controversy! Whether it's an officer and his arrest of an older black man, or John and Kate, Americans are obsessed with taking sides and having opinions about circumstances that they in reality know nothing about.

The only source we use to make serious conclusions about such incidents are second hand accounts. These takes are filtered through news media and other persons who in reality are nothing more than distributers of hearsay. They weren't "there" to "witness" it, so why do we insist on developing strong stances and beliefs about people we don't know based on their information.

I fear that small incidents and the opinions we form surrounding those incidents could lead to a full fledged war someday if we are not careful.

Take this situation with the Cambridge professor and the officer who arrested him for example. Is it possible that in some sense neither of these people did anything wrong? Maybe due to the sad culural difference that have been created throughout our history between races puts the professor in a position in which he felt violated. At the same time is it possible that, because of how the situation developed, the officer was just doing his job?

The fact is that I don't know, and neither do any of you! The only people who have the answers are the two men involved in the situation. It's almost as if we just love for controversy to exist out of some twisted need for "drama!"

If you weren't there don't pretend or proclaim to know what happened. It's silly! Don't allow the media to make your opinions for you.