We went on a dinner cruise a few weeks back, and sitting across from us at a group table was a wonderful young Black man named Stanley. He was raising two boys on his own, working as a government contractor at a nearby military base, and going to school at night to become a radiology tech, looking for better job security. As we heard him describe the struggle to raise two young sons in a gang-dominated community we were touched by his struggle and ashamed of our own increasing bigotry. We need to work hard not to give into our worst impulses, and to pray for justice and tolerance for everyone.
Resentment at the tendency of the black community to defend its violent sociopaths isn't bigotry - it's common sense. You can empathize with his difficulties while also recognizing that the black community's reflexive antipathy to the judicial system's efforts to lock up sociopathic black criminals is counterproductive to the community's image and profoundly racist.