As I sit here and watch the aftermath of the Michael Brown tragedy, I am engulfed with a nauseating feeling followed by what seems to be sharp razors for goose bumps. I am in a complete state of shock. How on earth have we as a nation allowed ourselves to go back down a road of hate and violence? These images of young black men laying in a pool of their own blood will stay with me for the rest of my life. As you turn on your 5’o clock news, you’d think we were back in the 1960’s. Every other week you can find a story of some minority being shot down or killed while being unarmed. Have we has people allowed law enforcement room to be comfortable playing God within our communities? I mean if we take a look back six or seven years, you will find several cases of our young black men being taken down under the pretenses they were armed, but in reality they were not. Kendrec Mcdade, Trayvon Martin, Kimani Gray, Amadou Diallo, Timothy Stansbury Jr., Sean Bell, Orlando Barlow, Aaron Campbell, Wendell Allen, Oscar Grant, Ervin Jefferson, and Victor Steen, who was killed after an officer of the law used his taser and ran him over with his cruiser in Pensacola, Fla. for refusing to stop and get off his bicycle. These incidents have stirred up a series of question in my head: are these occurrences new or newly televised? Since the 1960’s, has the violence against our kind plummeted and then sky rocketed OR has the violence and hate laid dormant, making a commotion in small towns and neighborhoods and has now gained popularity throughout the media. Do we as a nation want to know what’s going on because we want to put an end to this virus or will we use it as an excuse to retaliate using unorganized methods. Will this one day be put behind us or will this issue grow like wild fire? The answer is in our future.