Baltimore riots: 'They even took the ATM' – Pakistani shop owner may have lost $100,000 to looters

[JustAnotherGen]

105. rider with all due respect

A few months ago you and I engaged in an exchange where you point blank explained - you don't have the same experience of America because you don't appear as a bi racial woman - the way I do as a bi racial woman. It was the exchange where you seemed upset that I couldn't give weight in the modern era to the issues in Ireland of years past . . . Remember? I couldn't feel empathy because My Irish ancestry is solid Protestant - lace curtain variety.

How we experience things, the influence of our elders will make us lean in different directions.

You may not feel as connected to the black American experience as others do. My father was an expat from Alabama ((I grew up in Western NY )For me - this brutality is nothing new. This has been going on for 150 years - but now we have citizen surveillance on our side. I had his real time experience to look to, my own in a majority white community in the 70's and 80's, the warmth of being able to retreat into my friends whose mom's were also involved in Jack and Jill, etc etc that alone provided a shared empathy and experience in America.

Now we can document these things real time - The cell phone is mightier than the gun. Who knew? And what the cell phone showed was so horrific - that charges and arrests have been made.

If these were hate crimes - then that too shall be revealed. But - if you stand back and really take a look at the OP-

You can't see where he has been visible in calling things hate crimes when it is human beings who are black and losing their lives.

Maybe I'm wrong? If I am I will apologize to him.