I have heard about college campus protests throughout my life from my Dad, a professor at a small, prestigious college. While sympathetic to protesters’ concerns, he viewed them as irksome entertainers. News broadcasters generally described them as confused, spoiled brats.
When I was in college, divesting from corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa and gay rights were the primary issues that galvanized protesters, while discrimination against African Americans was the issue of choice when I was in graduate school……
I am usually pretty good at summarizing arguments of people with whom I disagree. But ever since the George Zimmerman verdict, I have been trying to understand the reasons of those who believe that race played no part in the verdict.
After listening to Cnn’s Anderson Cooper’s interview of Juror B-37 and reading articles by Michael Brown, Linda Chavez, Mona Charen, Pat Buchanan, and others, it appears that the “race-had-no-impact” opinion leaders argue that either George Zimmerman didn’t racially profile…..