You said the following without a shred of understanding or insight:
“There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.
There are probably very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator.
There are very few African-Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off.
That happens often.”
That statement is true only for casually dressed black males between the ages of 13 and 35. It can also be true of two or more black females in the same age if they are wearing informal clothes.
*It is not true for black women over 35.
*It is not true for black men over 45 if they are well dressed.
*It is not true for any black male or female wearing a uniform of the US military of a police department of a fire department or any other responsible agency. It is not true for anyone wearing a suit.
*It is not true for anyone who is wearing a security badge or identification.
*It is not true for a wide range of black people who are clearly involved in productive work such as a person carrying a musical instrument, a person involved in maintenance or repair.
Your failure to understand the reasons for this issue are disturbing in themselves. A black male or female in casual clothing between the ages of 13 and 35 presents a risk of crime that is not trivial. And everybody knows it. Everybody. Every American.
Most people spend their lives ignoring trivial danger. We face trivial dangers when we drive a car, when we ride on public transportation when we climb a ladder and when we use shop equipment. So long as the danger is trivial we try to be a little more careful.
Being in an elevator, being in a car or being responsible for products in the retail store presents most of us with a non-trivial danger if the person with us is a black in casual clothes between age 13 and 35. With a hoodie, even more so.
You don't seem to know this. You have been a cloistered affirmative action male. You speak English well, you are half white and you chose to go into a field that doesn't require intelligence: politics. Your arrogance, which is partly the result of 20 years of affirmative action, has made you insensitive to your own ignorance.
What I wrote above is simple, clear and easy to understand. I hope it gets through to you and you apologize to the American people for your racial incitement.