Who is suffering? Both sides now.

But some people see only one side.


As a human being, a liberal, and a Buddhist, I wonder how much pain people in this country are contributing to by giving in to prejudice, rage, and condemnation.   Even Buddhists...

The family of the policeman who killed the young black man in Missouri as well as the policeman himself are suffering.  No has heard their story.  Many, if not most, people don't care.  A whole nation, it seems, has risen up to condemn and, figuratively, lynch this man as a racist and brute.

Just as George Zimmerman unwittingly found himself in the situation in Florida where he shot another young black man and now will never be a free man--haunted by his own memories and by those who will hunt him down the remainder of his days--, so another man, with strengths and weaknesses like all of us, has found himself in a situation he never thought he would find himself in.

I'm sure he never intended to kill anyone except in self defense. Who knows how much violence he as a policeman has witnessed.

Very few people, except perhaps psychopaths, feel good about themselves after they have killed another man, for whatever reason.

Liberals can be fundamentalists, too, as we all can.