the black page

Born in a pink skin I'm considered white, therefore I have no illusions I can fully comprehend or imagine what our sisters and brothers with different complexion have gone through and still undergo.

Being married to Camille, as her husband and friend I am and have been a witness in the sometimes veiled, other times blatant and systemic prejudice, with which people seem to need to surround themselves. They might even be the ones from whom I least expected such attitudes. Attitudes based on fear of other human beings because they look different!?

Indeed exclamation and question marks are in place there...

The question is, when do we ever learn? There is one human race, our genetic differences are much less significant than all the hate mongers together ever thought possible. Their (the them who spread hate) theories of eugenic supremacy all debunked to the last letter.

Can we now please come to the point of Love? Even in policing?

Can we now finally cross the border to that land where all are considered equal? Even in policing?

Can we now finally come to a police in which responsibility is a true motto? Responsibility instead of brute force. Are we finally able to see investigative empathy at work? Maybe it will even increase the solved case rate.

So these words are for all those names who suffered a penalty before ever being convicted, and to those who have been convicted falsely.

I hope you will consider my words sincere.