America

[H2O Man]

17. From my experience,

with people I know, the racism has been at the surface all along. I've spoken before about two brothers I had known since the early 1960s -- when JFK was President -- who were murdered by a fellow who disliked black folks. This was in the early 1980s. The murderer got a shorter sentence that summer from a county judge, than a college student who had a quarter gram of cocaine ....his first offense.

In the 1990s, my nephew was attacked by a racist hate group that didn't approve of a non-white high school student getting a lot of press for being a scholar-athlete that led his team to a state title. They left my nephew for dead in a field that night. Though he lived, he has injuries that will last throughout his life. The gang leader got a $50 fine for having an open beer at the time he punched and kicked my unconscious nephew repeatedly. That was it.

Of course, I've seen a lot of crime that wasn't rooted in racism, too. But it's always been there. It's just that Trump has given license to these "many good people" that has encouraged them to come out from under the rocks.