Monthly Archives: April 2012

The racial events of the last two months have refocused the nation’s attention on race, particularly what seems to be the duality in the application of laws to black and white. The fact that five blacks were shot (three died) in Tulsa, Oklahoma while the Sanford, Florida county prosecutor has chosen not to send the Trayvon Martin case to the Grand Jury has people of good conscience and common sense shaking their heads around how this 400 year race thing continues to play out in the most egregious ways toward African Americans. Race continues to be the third rail of … Continue reading →

Journalist Gerald Rivera set off a national firestorm when he suggested that the hoodie that Florida youth, Trayvon Martin, was wearing cost him his life. What Rivera is suggesting, in an offbeat way, was that Martin was profiled by the clothes he was wearing—not such an outrageous assertion—given that it applies to black and Latino youth more than white youth. White youth in hip hop gear—baggy or sagging pants, “wifebeater” t-shirts and sweatshirts with hoods on them (hoodies) aren’t considered “suspicious.” Don’t think for a minute that Trayvon’s killer, George Zimmerman, missed—for even a minute—that Martin was African American. It … Continue reading →