I really am not. And I apologize for that impression—it was not my intent. I sort of felt the post detracted from this too, yes? Like, dude, it isn't the time to be throwing around all the racist crap at all??

ALL OF MY PROBLEMS!!? WHEN DID I DO THAT? WHITE PEOPLE DIDNT STOP ME FROM GOING TO COLLEGE, DIDN T STOP ME FROM PAYING THE RENT. WHEN DID I SAY THAT?

What a shock. A bunch of white women in Florida think it's okay to shoot a black teen male to death. I mean, we are talking about the place that didn't want to bring him to trial to begin with.

Can't say I'm all that shocked, tbh.

a) My head hurts just watching it

In order to get out of the gray, it has to be rec'd by an approved commenter. Which is even more cliquish than before, and drives people who aren't here every day away because why even bother composing a really thoughtful post, over and over and over again, if it's going to take forever for people to read it?

If only we'd listened...