You're right, in a strange way. If it was a white teen who was shot, we wouldn't be having this conversation now. It probably would have stopped after 2-3 pages and laid dormant until there was more information.matriculated wrote:Or if he was a preppy looking white boy, would we even be having this conversation? We all like to pretend that race doesn't matter any more in this country, but a moment's look outside the window will dispel that wild myth.
However, because the teen is black, the racists are out in full force claiming there must be some racial motivation behind the shooting, racial motivation for the police decision to not arrest the local resident whose story matches the evidence, and so on.
