I mean - accounting for either a large public university or small private college education and subsequent professional life - black people HAVE to have white friends . There will always be an office full of white people, a white HR director (who will fast track white applicants consciously or otherwise), and company…

That is so frustrating to hear. Diversity isn't a piece of optional equipment on a Vespa. There's a whole infrastructure in place that makes it easy for everyone in your life to look, act, dress, think just like you do. If you don't make the effort to counteract those conscious decisions then nothing will change. You…

It's complicated and it's easy to write off the whole deal. More productive is confronting preconceptions and, frankly, sacking up. Yes, the "urban" school isn't going to have a state of the art computer lab or the best teachers UNTIL people like you send your kids there and demand those things for everyone's…

Two birds, one rhinestone?

It's not about money. It's affirming the idea that a performer's time is valuable. His talent is a fungible asset. He gets paid to go to set every day and deliver. A part of his negotiated deal is a set amount of promotional activity.

"No reason."? That's how little you value black people's lives? The grotesque inequities in the US criminal justice system is the only reason I'm even on this forum but that doesn't rate so much as raising an eyebrow, huh?

You got it all figured out, buddy. Congrats.

Look, I don't know why white people hate black people. Read a book for Christ sake. Slavery over three centuries. And what 1865 everything just magically self-corrected? White people didn't hardwire discrimination into the legal system for the next 100 years? Yeah, European immigrants were manipulated and exploited…

Stereotypes are partly true? Really? Sigh.

You implied the witnesses were lying i.e. changed their stories and that that somehow exonerates Wilson. That is inaccurate on both counts.

You probably want to look into moving.

Have you seen the tape? He was sitting in the park by himself. The BB gun, which he didn't have time to point at anyone because he was shot on sight is kind of irrelevant.

But stuff isn't more important that people. We agree on that, right?

Do you live in the NYC that doesn't have any black people in it like on TV sitcoms? I pity your poor child. I'm the real racist because why again?

Well, 50% are shot at by the police, closer to 45% are actually hit. At least according to the latest NYPD firearm discharge report. Of course that's just NY so...

Tamir Rice was literally just hanging out at the park when the a cop literally raced up to him, jumped out of a car and shot him to death? The cop literally stood there watching Rice as stomach acid consumed his insides and slowly bled to death. That happened.

So you're point is white people have it bad to because sometimes cops take their fishing boats if they don't pay their parking tickets? Help me out here.

You're already doing a pretty good job of being an entitled twat on the internet. How about a Pumpkin Spice Latte? You've earned it.

Extermination not mistreatment but I see what you're saying. My point was that the process of enshrining racism into law was perfected in the dynamic between blacks and whites. They wanted blacks to be a slave caste. They just wanted the indigenous people gone.

The homeless mental patient the cops beat to death in Santa Ana? Is that supposed to mean something or are you just answering my rhetorical question? Because I can name 15 black people killed by the police off the top of my head since Trayvon Martin and I'm sure if you googled it you could find another white person…