To condemn Adrian Peterson without considering racial context ...

[tblue37]

84. 1SBM, I seldom bother to argue with someone who seems determined *not* to understand what I am

saying. I know that they won't read or hear my words, but will insist on assuming (or pretending) that I am saying something entirely different from what I am actually saying.

But when your accurate and carefully written explanation was so bizarrely twisted, I felt I had to say something. I suppose I got a little more worked up than I should have. My comments are usually much calmer than that one was.

I had actually come to DU to post an explanation very similar to yours, but when I saw yours, I realized that I didn't need to, since you had already done so, and you had done so from experience that I can't match, since I am white.

By the way, though, there is one point in a post here that I don't understand and that I have been trying to puzzle out since reading it last night.

When you say, "the cross lit up," do you mean that white people actually came to your family's home that evening because of the ice-cream store incident and burned a cross, and that the elders had the children hide under the porch because they feared there would be violence?