Painful racial realities and posturing

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/NAACP-Police-involved-shooting-a-cold-blooded-6850343.php


As a person of color who has to deal with the unpleasant racial realities every day of my life, who remembers writing an impassioned review of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1967 at Meany Middle School, I feel compelled to write this review.

I am wondering what Dr. King would have thought of the actions of local chapters of the NAACP in recent years such as the Seattle chapter (see link above).

Self-righteousness, arrogance, posturing, a disdain for opinions for other than one's own, a rush to judgment before all the facts are known:  these are not in accordance with the values I he believed in.

Workshops on non-violent conflict resolution and condemning machismo/no-snitching within the community would go much further than immediately exploiting for political advantage the death of a black man.


[If anything should happen to me, questions should begin to be asked of the downtown YMCA and of Yelp for direct or indirect implication.  It pains me to reflect on the fact that often within minority groups, minorities are persecuted as much or even more than in the society at large].