My reply to this person is as follows - I wish he had the opportunity to respond back.
I am truly sorry for your pain but have to ask you (as a 63 year old white female) if when I look at the statistics and see that young black man wearing hoodies and their pants hanging off their butts are killing each other and committing crimes why I would not be suspicious? When I see young white males taking on this gansta persona I am just as suspicious. It is the image they are trying to portray that brings the suspicion - not the color of their skin. Why isn't all this animosity and hate Sharpton and Jackson are spewing being directed to help these young black men instead of making the racial divide even greater?
There was a recent Pugh poll done that revealed blacks believed themselves to be more racially prejudice than white people. When Janelle said under oath that she didn't believe "creepy ass cracker" was offensive she said no. Trayvon called Zimmerman a "******" and that was okay. If this is how young people are thinking doesn't that lead to them believing they are being profiled, when in fact they are doing the profiling?
This is an extremely difficult topic and I hope I don't appear as insensitive to what you are saying. My daughter has recently married a black man and I am grateful they will not feel the prejudice couples from my generation suffered, but I also know they will face battles I probably can't even imagine. But as long as we allow race baiters to benefit from what they do it will never heal. We need honest dialogue not hateful rhetoric.
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