It's also not helping that the black community seems to believe that Trayvon was a saint, despite the evidence that he was once apprehended in school with a backpack containing stolen jewelry and a screwdriver.
I hear no protestations that the claim about the stolen jewelry is false. It is simply ignored as if it is irrelevant.
Until the black community can cure themselves of this blindness they will continue to make fools of themselves and set back any hope of improving the lives of their children.
I just heard on the radio that there is surveillance video of him stealing a box of cigars. While no excuse for shooting him, neither is he the paragon of virtual the MSM wants us to believe.
Simply put: If the black culture STOPS reinforcing the stereotypes ( by being criminals and excusing/supporting them) stereotypes and prejudice will fade. If you want to control people’s REactions to you, you start with controlling your ACTIONS. A generation or two later, the public mind will no longer associate all blacks with crime and sub-human behavior.
You are right about the mindset- therein IS the problem. Black people can say ‘yes, he sells drugs, robs people,been in prison...but he’s a GOOD boy’. It IS normal to be all those things in the black culture-the vast majority- and even the better class blacks get defensive of the lower classes. They have normalized it.
Perfect example: drive by execution of a drug dealer a couple of days ago, here in the lovely ‘Ninth Ward’. Sitting on a porch with neighbors and babies, they were all shot at. They KNEW what he was, but there they were sitting outside with their kids with him and they are honestly surprised that someone sprayed the group with lead! If ‘good’ teens and babies hadn’t been hanging with a known drug dealer they wouldn’t be dead. He was ok to hang with, he should be ok to die with That ‘yeah, he’s a dealer and a thug, but he’s our friend’, is what is behind this whole pathology.