no, Jeffrey, we don’t all remember how Travon was ‘profiled’ and ‘murdered’ - it’s not how we remember it at all and beginning an article with a manipulative statement isn’t a very nice way to gain readers and influence people. NEXT
You missed the real payoff. At the end Boney writes:
“While I may have prejudices, I can be as “honest” as Cuban and confess that I do not believe every White person I see is going to lynch me like James Byrd Jr., nor do I believe every White person in a suit is going to discriminate on me in business. If I had those thoughts, would I be justified in thinking that way, the same way Cuban seeks to justify his prejudicial beliefs?”
Superficially this sounds nice, but it reveals fatally flawed thinking. Recognizing the signature traits shared by SOME/MANY dangerous people is critical to survival; failing to do so greatly increases your odds of being harmed. Humans tend to fear ALL snakes, even though relatively few are poisonous vipers. If the writer was dating a white woman in the 1950s, and found himself surrounded at night by white men wearing white “hoodies”, would he be a racist if he felt uncomfortable and extracted himself from the area as quickly as possible? No, he’d be a living “profiler”.