What in your life is black/white each day? Not much, maybe your decision to wear a certain shirt or drink a certain cup of coffee is, but what about the argument with your wife or children? A lot of those arguments contain good points and bad points, should Tim’s cell phone be taken a week or if he doesn’t violate the rules be given back after a few days? So why on earth are complex situations so simple? I ask this question a lot when i see people online posting a Back the Blue picture or Black Lives matter logo, both are enticing, especially to someone who used to be a police officer, been racially profiled, had a friend or family killed by a police officer, had friends or family killed in the line of duty, or helped by a police officer out of a jam. How could you not see that there could be criminals who are dangerous or cops that make bad mistakes or worse purposeful injustices. Arguing with the wife over whether or not your son or daughter’s punishment should be is gray, and so are complex interactions with the police. This notion that systemic racism exists may be a good point, but is it? How do you separate systemic racism from classism? In other words, How much of systemic racism is rooted in money, not race? And if we could somehow take race out of the equation would it even help anything?