He shot him because he was a black man. He went into the “traffic stop”, with all the prejudices, biases, & then fear he could muster up about black men. Everything you said sounded so understandable, so reasonable, so logical, but NONE of that would have needed to take place if only Mr Castile would have been white.

A year after graduating college my daughter moved to South Korea as an English teacher. She has lived there now for 3 years. Even though it isn’t on this list she has an ever growing list of Black Americans & people from the Continent. No, it isn’t perfect, there is racism, but nothing overtly like we experience here. …