I want to say this again: "Fighting hatred with more hatred, violence with more violence, anger with more anger, or prejudice with more prejudice never created a better world. If we really want to change this world, we must fight harder against our own limited perspectives and try harder to walk around in the skin of someone else, even if that "other" seems completely and totally in the wrong from where we stand now." ~Joni Newman~

If you think Alton Brown or Philando Castille were criminals who deserved it now would be the time to try and put yourselves in their shoes and their families shoes NO MATTER HOW RIGHT YOU THINK YOU ARE.

If you think the police are by and large racist and corrupt and power hungry now would be a good time to try and put yourselves in their shoes and wonder what it would be like to really be in a situation like that NO MATTER HOW RIGHT YOU THINK YOU ARE.

It is not a time to say, "Well I would NEVER do {x, y, z} if I were pulled over." It is not a time to say "Well I would NEVER do {x, y, z} if I were a cop." It IS time to really look inside yourself and try to walk in another persons shoes for just a moment.

What would Jesus do in the aftermath of what has happened? He definitely wouldn't say that either of the black men deserved what happened no matter what their criminal records were. He absolutely wouldn't have said the Dallas police officers deserved what happened. He has already told us what to do! Please mourn all the lives! Please open your arms to your neighbors, even if they are criminals! Aren't we commanded to visit the sick and imprisoned? Jesus didn't hang out in places that would have made any of us very comfortable. Make yourself uncomfortable and reach out in understanding. Volunteer with an organization that helps underprivileged people. Try to identify and undo your own prejudice. Remove the mote in your own eye before you point out the beam in someone else's.

No more division among "liberal media" and "conservative media." Read both and realize that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. We need to be cool with our differences! No one is right all the time. Sometimes the liberals have it right. Sometimes the conservatives have it right. And Jesus is neither one. He isn't cheering just for your team. He cheers for us all.