He talked about looking through a set of experiences but that is true for both races. People do not operate through shared experiences or shared histories but through personal experiences. Is there any difference in a black man assuming racism from a white based on his personal experiences and a white man assuming racially motivated violence from blacks because of his personal experience with it? Could that be the reason whites who live in racially diverse areas are more likely to assume blacks will be violent? Is it racism based not on ignorance but base on experience?

I agree with him that we need to have an open and honest discussion about race but the first thing that has to happen is whites need to be able criticize the black community without being labeled racist.

If he wants to talk about the way people behaves around young black men he needs to start with the way young black men behave. I think if you could fix that problem the other would work it self out to large degree.

Of course pointing all that out makes me a racist.