I am not Trayvon Martin and I never will be. I have always felt that racism is wrong, but

I am not Trayvon Martin and I never will be. I have always felt that racism is wrong, but I can never truly know what it is like to be Black in this country. I have attended several rallies demanding justice for Trayvon Martin and I couldn’t help looking at some of the young Black men in these rallies and thinking about how this could have been one of them. Being that I am white, I can take for granted that something like this would not happen to me, but it could have very easily happened to the young man standing next to me. I have also come to realize that if we really want to end the problem, we need to work among other white people. We can keep on passing civil rights laws, but the problem will not go away until white people confront their own prejudices. White people are just now starting to find out what Black people have always known: if a white person really wants to help fight racism, the solution is to “go home and free your own people,” as Black activists told white people during the late 1960’s. -- source link

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