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Demonstrators protest outside of the Buzz Westfall Justice Center where a grand jury will begin looking at the circumstances surrounding the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 20, 2014, in Clayton, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer on August 9. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Related PostsMichael Brown has been eulogized and buried. Family, friends, indeed a nation [url=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Kors-Bags-On-Sale]Michael Kors Bags On Sale[/url] mourns the senseless loss of a mother鈥檚 son. As the father of two sons, my heart sank at learning of the killing of yet another young black male. The image of one of my own boys lying on a street with six gunshot wounds terrifies and angers me. For well over two weeks, we have witnessed the community of Ferguson, Missouri, struggle to come to grips with its past and its future. But the same can be said for the rest of us as well. We continue to be 鈥渟hocked鈥?when we hear about the death of a Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner but seem impervious to the startling losses that occur, for example, on the streets of Chicago. We turn our eyes away from the day to day harshness and unforgiving glare of police tape and covered bodies on the streets of our communities only to become engaged when someone decides that 鈥渢his senseless killing鈥?demands more attention than all the others. Black and white America is quick to place the blame on the systemic issues of poor education, unemployment, militarized police, and a host of other ills 鈥?and we are right to do so. But we are disconcertingly uncomfortable with addressing the underlying issues of race; how race is used by whites as a weapon against the black community and as an excuse by blacks for the harm we do to ourselves. We have marched, passed legislation and witnessed the election of America鈥檚 first black president, and yet the black community as a whole and young in particular remains a racial to the point that merely walking from a convenience store or selling untaxed cigarettes is [url=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Phyllis-Wedge]Jimmy Choo Phyllis Wedge[/url] perceived as a 鈥渢hreat鈥?and requires an extreme response. And while we will rise up against such indignities, we seem paralyzed against, if not accepting of, the continual degradation of the fabric of black families and neighborhoods because of the crime we commit against each other. We do not live in a 鈥減ost-racial鈥?America, and we must be honest with ourselves and our children about that. No doubt enormous strides have been made since the days blacks were water-hosed for seeking an education or refused service because they wanted a meal at a lunch counter or lynched for looking at a white woman. But what does it say about these times when a black male can be shot, and authorities appear annoyed that the community wants to protest his killing? What does it also say about the black community that each day, each week, each month, more of our future is lost to gunfire, failing classrooms, boarded up businesses, a lack of parenting and teen pregnancies? How are we prepared to respond to the increased incidents of targeting black males? How do we expect any changes if we don鈥檛 vote? What should we say to our sons who have been told this [url=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Kate-Spade-Dresses]Kate Spade Dresses[/url] is a 鈥渄ifferent America鈥?than the one their grandparents grew up in? The deaths of , , 聽, , ,聽 , , , 聽and the in Chicago in 2013, are solemn reminders of the ground we find ourselves standing on today. However, where we stand today is not necessarily where we will be tomorrow. Our history speaks to that. But wherever we are, this moment does cry out for us to finally and honestly answer some fundamental questions about ourselves and America before we can move forward. It begins with the acknowledgement that whites and blacks cannot resolve the obvious problems until we deal with discreet issues of race and racism that exist between and among us.

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+Demonstrators protest outside of the Buzz Westfall Justice Center where a grand jury will begin looking at the circumstances surrounding the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 20, 2014, in Clayton, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer on August 9. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Related PostsMichael Brown has been eulogized and buried.
+Family, friends, indeed a nation [url=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Kors-Bags-On-Sale]Michael Kors Bags On Sale[/url]  mourns the senseless loss of a mother鈥檚 son. As the father of two sons, my heart sank at learning of the killing of yet another young black male. The image of one of my own boys lying on a street with six gunshot wounds terrifies and angers me.
+For well over two weeks, we have witnessed the community of Ferguson, Missouri, struggle to come to grips with its past and its future. But the same can be said for the rest of us as well. We continue to be 鈥渟hocked鈥?when we hear about the death of a Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner but seem impervious to the startling losses that occur, for example, on the streets of Chicago.
+We turn our eyes away from the day to day harshness and unforgiving glare of police tape and covered bodies on the streets of our communities only to become engaged when someone decides that 鈥渢his senseless killing鈥?demands more attention than all the others.
+Black and white America is quick to place the blame on the systemic issues of poor education, unemployment, militarized police,  and a host of other ills 鈥?and we are right to do so. But we are disconcertingly uncomfortable with addressing the underlying issues of race; how race is used by whites as a weapon against the black community and as an excuse by blacks for the harm we do to ourselves.
+We have marched, passed legislation and witnessed the election of America鈥檚 first black president, and yet the black community as a whole and young  in particular remains a racial  to the point that merely walking from a convenience store or selling untaxed cigarettes is [url=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Phyllis-Wedge]Jimmy Choo Phyllis Wedge[/url]  perceived as a 鈥渢hreat鈥?and requires an extreme response.
+And while we will rise up against such indignities, we seem paralyzed against, if not accepting of, the continual degradation of the fabric of black families and neighborhoods because of the crime we commit against each other.
+We do not live in a 鈥減ost-racial鈥?America, and we must be honest with ourselves and our children about that. No doubt enormous strides have been made since the days blacks were water-hosed for seeking an education or refused service because they wanted a meal at a lunch counter or lynched for looking at a white woman.
+But what does it say about these times when a black male can be shot, and authorities appear annoyed that the community wants to protest his killing? What does it also say about the black community that each day, each week, each month, more of our future is lost to gunfire, failing classrooms, boarded up businesses, a lack of parenting and teen pregnancies?
+How are we prepared to respond to the increased incidents of targeting black males? How do we expect any changes if we don鈥檛 vote? What should we say to our sons who have been told this [url=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Kate-Spade-Dresses]Kate Spade Dresses[/url]  is a 鈥渄ifferent America鈥?than the one their grandparents grew up in?
+The deaths of , , 聽, , ,聽 , , , 聽and the  in Chicago in 2013, are solemn reminders of the ground we find ourselves standing on today. However, where we stand today is not necessarily where we will be tomorrow.
+Our history speaks to that.
+But wherever we are, this moment does cry out for us to finally and honestly answer some fundamental questions about ourselves and America before we can move forward. It begins with the acknowledgement that whites and blacks cannot resolve the obvious problems until we deal with discreet issues of race and racism that exist between and among us.