This is not going to go away. I am getting more and more pissed about this. And I am a 60-year-old white woman. And there are a lot of us out here that feel the same. The killing of this boy was an atrocity.
I hope any black people reading my words will realize that most white people aren't like the bigots you see posting on this forum. We are just as appalled as you are at what happened to this kid.
It's amusing to watch the racists on this board become more and more emboldened. Now just outright using the word "******." They cling together and feel empowered in their numbers. What they don't realize is they are not the majority. They are old fossils, narrow-minded and obsolete, and the world will be a better place when they just die out.
I have been guilty of racist comments and even racist viewpoints in my life, because I grew up hearing it. But I knew I was wrong. Deep, down inside my heart I knew I was wrong, so I was able to evolve to a higher standard.
My Dad was a racist. I remember a story he told about back in the 50s when a group of fellow educators met for a lunch at a local restaurant. And this was in Juneau, Alaska, not the south. One of them was black. They had just gotten themselves seated when the restaurant owner came out from the back and told them they did not serve negroes. I guess deep in my Dad's heart he wasn't truly racist, because he was the first to stand up and say, "Well, **** you. Come on everybody, let's go somewhere else!" And eight white men got up and left the restaurant in support of the one black man who was being discriminated against.
I've always loved that story because I think it divulged my Dad's TRUE nature.