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We live in a world where a lot of white people will shrug off those stories as isolated incidents, rather than products of a culture that unfairly, unrelentingly conflates blackness with criminality.

We live in a world where a white woman answers her door to a black teen and doesn’t even hear his words. She sees his skin color, and she screams. Her husband decides he must be shot.

We live in a world where black men waiting at Starbucks — something I’ve done in my white skin more times than I can count — are assumed by management to be up to something.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifest...415-story.html