[Iron Munro]

There was understandable racial pride on the part of the African-American community...

Doesn't anyone at all have the guts to call it by its correct name:

RACISM

[Tax-chick]

Bingo! Can you imagine a major newpaper’s including the phrase, “understandable racial pride on the part of the White American community”?

FReep ‘em, anyway. “Racial pride” is for people who have never done anything, personally, of which they could legitimately be proud.