Last year, I bawled my eyes out when Mo left the mound for the last time. I seriously cried for about 10 minutes when Andy and Jeet took him out and he crumbled in front of the crowd.

I think you missed the point. How is the picture relevant at all was the message he was trying to convey. The argument is that this picture was intentionally picked to sway the populous into believing he was a 'gang thug'. Whether or nor it was a gang sign or not, the picture should not have been chosen in the…

"We've come from being considered 3/5ths of a person to being the President, Attorney General, governor, doctor, lawyer, entrepreneur, scientist, and skilled tradesmen and women."

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

Excellent piece Greg...wow.

It must be terrible for black parents to have to tell their children "Even if you're unarmed, even if you're well-behaved, even if you do everything right, there is still a chance that a white police officer will murder you in the street with your hands up."