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Tonight, I was scrolling down my Facebook page, when I came to an post about his crazy woman who taped herself in her car, while ranting about the McKinney PD and pool incident. The woman's video has made her an Internet celebrity, because she is black and bashed the teenagers and not the police. Let's be clear, she's now in a special minority of people in the universe who believe this, but an even smaller minority of black people. Let's also get something straight. If you're an intelligent adult and you listened to her and thought she was correct, let's face it, you probably had your mind made up before you even saw the video, because why else would The Blaze and Fox News be running this? That being said, even uneducated, ignorance is acceptable, because it falls under the umbrella of an opinion. So let's leave it at that. This isn't the point.

There was one comment written under the link and it was by someone I went to high school with, someone I consider(ed) a friend and someone who actually never really posts anything, but pictures of his car on Facebook. The comment was this "shoot them all." Now, if I take race out of the equation and I take employment description out of the equation and I take every single aspect of the video out of the equation, pretending it is two people who differ only in the length of their big toes. If that's all I do, this is the most bigoted thing I've read by someone I know. I won't tolerate that kind of hate in my world, from those I call, even loosely, friends.

I then went down and there were two more anti-Caitlyn Jenner posts and two somewhat roundabout racist jokes that were not meant to be funny to everyone, but to only those who share this hatred. I'm holding off on blocking these people, because I don't want to misinterpret anyone and I don't feel like going down my list and asking every single person if they are a bigot. I will say this. I'm done with ignorant negativity. I take enough abuse as it is, by people who never once take a second to think what I might be going through and lash out at me, expecting it will be taken as a joke, like it normally is. I'm not going to threaten through my feed, but there are some who have no respect for Blacks, Spanish, women or their own kid's futures, despite the posts to the contrary. I'm done with those people and my list will start to dwindle soon and you know what? I'll be a better person for it.

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