If the roles were reversed, would the outcry, the extraordinary efforts at reasoning and excusing behavior that tiptoes the line of illegality, the knee-jerk raising of the "race-card" flag be at the same level? I suspect not - unless there has been an ingrained history of persecution, unequal treatment under law, and race-based crimes against whites by blacks. Let's do the time warp again.
Why should people of color have to tread more lightly around white public servants?
The President of the United States should address issues such as these - not because he shares ancestry in both the ethnicities involved here - but because it's incidents like these that plague this country and prevent us from moving forward. His job is to lead this country, and like others before him, he knows that silence is not the best response.
Roachboy- that was one fantastic post.
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