If, as some articles have suggested, the noose/"Compton Cookout" incidents (and perhaps this cotton incident?) are in response to Black History Month, what I find to be the most troublesome element of this phenomenon is the casualness with which people are committing these acts.
LETTER: More friendships between races will encourage empathy, understanding
Thursday, March 4, 2010 | 12:16 p.m. CST;
updated 3:52 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 4, 2010
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