So what is the response supposed to be? Answering hatred with hatred? Bigotry with bigotry?
Hating or even blaming those who aren't engaging in racially-motivated attacks—simply because they share the same skin color with those who are—is neither constructive nor legitimate. Doesn't that sound like the same thing that racist Black thugs are doing? I don't buy into the "we must become the enemy we hate" line of reasoning.
Look at some other Blacks, like Tommy Sotomayor. There are many in the Black community who feel the same way he does, but are afraid to speak out—and for good reason.
How about instead we hold individuals responsible for their actions, instead of painting with such a broad brush—just like some of us accuse them of doing?
Nobody—certainly not me—is saying that singing kumbaya is any solution. Establishing Equal Justice is one solution, and that includes holding, for instance, police responsible when they are guilty of murder, abuse and brutality—instead of almost always getting away with it.
It's important to admit that this problem is multifaceted—for instance acknowledging the horrible ramifications of young men growing up without fathers, and facing the fact that there is rampant racism being nurtured in the Black community. Indeed, at this point, there's probably significantly more of it than there is in the White community. It should also at the same time be acknowledged that there are historical reasons for this—even if citing those historical reasons as an excuse for violence and crime is never legitimate.
My main thought in all of this is that we must address these problems as Americans by uniting together to solve them—not by Balkanizing, which will only make things worse. It's not "us versus them". Racism is an Enemy that slithers its way through both camps, to varying degrees. We mustn't each exist on mutually exclusive islands—we must find common ground on which to wage this fight and address its root causes.
Therefore, whether one believes that there is a "race war" or not, it does not follow that escalating that alleged war is any way to fight it—much less "win" it. Anyone that takes that route is going to find themselves repudiated by post-racial America—which is where the vast majority of the People already live—regardless of which "side" they imagine themselves to be on.
Encouraging a "race war" mentality is unquestionably a tool designed to keep the People from turning their attention to the real Enemy: those who seek to destroy our Republic by undermining all aspects of its rich and vibrant culture—whether White, Black, Latino, or any other...