BLM - Please Listen to this Mother.

With all of the senseless events of this week, with all the cries of black lives matter, blue lives matter and so forth I was stunned to listen to this video from a mother. It may have been posted before, it may not, but the power in this woman's simple words would stop any protest. This video is nearly a year old, but the words ring truer now than ever before. It was time someone in the black community told their kids to have a big cup of STFU and better themselves, and value their own and everyone else's life. This was made after the events of Ferguson, but it could be about this week.

a reply to: andy1972

Mothers really do know best.

But it's not just BLM...some of their staunchest critics could use a serving or two of STFU, too.

We don't/won't get anywhere feeding off of each others fears, and differences. Our differences should be explored and celebrated, not derided--and certainly not fought over. Geeze, hasn't there been enough of that in the past several thousand years?

Personally? I don't care where you go to church, or if you even do. It means little to nothing to me, other than it helps make you--you. I don't care what color your skin is...nope. Or nationality. I don't give a flying whatever what your sexual preferences are, or if you were originally a boy or a girl. It flat doesn't matter to me.

I figure, if I give you a chance to prove you're a good person...the rest is window dressing.

I would really like to buy this woman a drink and have a nice long chat with her. Mother to mother. I have told some of the very same things to my children.

This lady is telling it like she sees it and doesn't mind hurting a few feelings in the process.