Source: Rome News-Tribune | Kenneth Fuller
Anyone who viewed the chaos in Ferguson, Missouri, surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown as a local problem with black hoodlums that does not affect us here in peaceful, bucolic Northwest Georgia, is ignoring a deep racial divide in our own city and state — one which we continue to ignore to our peril.
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After the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, I read a letter from the Rev. Jim Wallis titled “Lament from a White Father.”
In it, he stated that he is convinced that if his 14-year-old son Luke had left the house, on the same day, dressed exactly as was Trayvon Martin, to walk to the store in the same neighborhood, he would have come home to his mom and dad that night unharmed.