African American

Thanks for posting that. The part about the stuffed animal was especially poignant.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking that a lot of this stuff is about empathy. We as a culture do not value empathy enough. Too many white people think, "Well, I didn't do anything bad to a black person, so racism is not my problem." But it is our problem. (I'm white.) It's everybody's problem. It's impossible to live in the midst of a racist society without being sullied by it. I get so angry when white people declare that they're not racist, as if they lived in a separate universe. If we all had more empathy in our hearts, the world would be a much better place in so many ways.