Why must race come before everything, even the dreams of our youngest Americans?

A year ago, a video went viral showing a young boy of about ten or 11-years-old who was dressed in a policeman’s uniform. His neighbors were bullying him. Some even shook their body parts at him in a degrading fashion. How could he, a Black boy, be so foolish as to support their public enemy, the police? Throughout all this, the boy stood there with a stoic face and maintained his composure. 

When I saw that video, I was appalled by the bad faith in it. Had we become so jaded as a society...