No ulterior motives here.
Nope.
None at all.
If the racebaiters would do what Gandhi did, or what MLK, Jr. did, and concentrate on winning people over by acting responsibly, working hard, and impressing others with their real accomplishments, race hated would disappear in America in two generations. Instead, they wail about how everyone hates them, and even those prone to be reasonable end up saying "what, this again"?
When I went to my suburban high school there were two black kids, simply because black families didn't move into our neighborhoods. Today, my child goes to a high school where half of the kids are black. We say that "she has no black friends" because she has friends...and their color doesn't enter into it (although about a third of them are black.) It is a very tough magnet school, so everyone there has no time for being crappy to each other, even if they chose to...and if you are anything but a hard worker, you are gone in two semesters. No race problem there, and people are judged on their accomplishments.
I want to do what MLK did...judge people on their accomplishments, and what's in their hearts. If you love your spouse, if you love and are kind but firm with your kids, if you work hard, keep your yard clean, and smile back when I smile at you, I don't care if you are white, black, green or purple. But every time I see someone who is a victim of "broken culture" and I have an opinion about the way they behave, I am branded a racist by the Left. If I have a judgement on the behavior of others who do drugs, or glorify violence, or call women "hoes", it always becomes about race as tool by the Left to excuse bad behavior. (By people who vote Democrat.)
I want (like MLK, Jr.) to judge people on the contents of their hearts. Are they kind? Gentle? Just? Fair? Hardworking and good to their kids? But every time I do, the racebaiters of the Left won't let me.
Did the guy over react? Yep. Should he have placed himself right next to trouble? Nope. Was it tragic? Yep. And every day hundreds of young black men are killed by other young black men...and I haven't heard a word from Sharpton, or Farrakan, or for that matter you, Mr. President, saying we need an outreach to stop young black men from behaving badly, from glorify drug use, from glorifying violence, or even for disrespecting black women. You want a "personal responsibility clause". Mr. President? When are the MANY young black men going to matter enough for you to say THEY are wrong and should change?