[ssaftler]

You're clearly some kind of walking open emotional wound about "race whores," and you seem to truly want Oakland to burn.

For the last 18 months, we have heard nothing around here except how this was a WHITE Police Officer killing a poor, innocent "African-American" male. Nothing about the near riot on the BART tracks that the officers were responding to, nothing about the sheer numbers of people involved, not a DAMNED thing except how this was a racial incident.

I'm sorry if it insults your sensibilities that these people have no agenda save to make me ashamed that my skin isn't very dark. These people that purport to heed the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. seem to have forgotten his greatest comment, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

I hope I'm wrong about Oakland burning, I really do. But I'm enough of a realist and have seen enough of the local news lately to know that my chances of being wrong are not great.

[Smogger]

I honestly haven't heard that much rhetoric about the race of the officer and the victim. It wouldn't change my view of the incident either way. It's the same as as every other questionable shooting by the police. BLUE vs EVERYONE ELSE.