So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your crimes.

Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the hateful, profane, condescending way some have expressed their discontent that baffles me. How do you criticize actions you've deemed disrespectful and divisive and an affront to civilized behavior with rhetoric to the same end? That's like the devil judging the Grim Reaper for harvesting souls.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.