http://jenhatmaker.com/blog/2012/03/26/dear-trayvons-mom
In typical sedated-American culture fashion, important issues aren’t discussed until necessary. And by necessary, I mean until tragedy strikes. We don’t discuss policy reforms, until well into a recession. We don’t food standards until our half of our country’s children are obese and we certainly don’t discuss issues like race until someone dies.
For many of us in 2012, the concept of racism in America is a distant memory. One of black and white pictures, civil rights marches and film clips from The Help. For others they live with the ever present reality that the tone of their skin constitutes unwarranted suspicion and unfair stereotypes that will be with them, in some ways even if it’s minor, for decades to come. Then for a woman like Trayvon’s mom
