Your last sentence is lie that you can not prove.   Just one more way you want to dodge the damage done by racist white policy, enforcement and the court system.    You've tied you horse to the parade of cross burning murderers.    At LEAST you can acknowledge the horrors of racism historically.  Then you can ask yourself if the stories of you own grandparents and great grandparents still affect your own view of the world.

Sorry for the harshness Bill, but I lived in Houston in the 1950's and I remember the murder of MLK.   I remember a father who called Oregon blacks 'co*ons.   I stayed in black St. Louis projects and talked to police in that city.  ( at that point the area was 51% black and the police force 98% white), and talked to blacks 'stopped and beaten'.   It was a war on both sides, but only blacks went to jail.

We will agree on some things but you hit a very hot spot of my lifetime values.