I had no intention of embarrassing anyone. Some posters here do a fine job of embarrassing themselves without any help from me.
For me the posted article made many valid points. For example, racism undoubtedly had a great deal to do with this unfortunate incident. Many whites have biased ideas about blacks, and just as many blacks (if not more) have prejudiced ideas about whites. That is one of the authors main points. If there were less racism, incidents such as this one would be much less likely to occur. We need to treat each other with more understanding and more kindness. We need to do more thinking, and less relying on knee jerk stereotypes which are often wrong. But that's just my opinion. And I'm done preaching.
By the way, I do agree with you on one thing, Bucco. No article or no person could ever teach you anything about empathy.
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