I can’t comment on Florida law because I understand it even less (far less) than you do.
The fact is that if people want to do something about racism , the next step MUST come from within the African-American community. I don’t think the trial verdict was a result of racism, but the hysteria and riots, etc. before and after the trial are the result of racism from all sides. They, as a whole community, need to stand up and take responsibility for their role in racism against black people — and theirs is the biggest role, IMHO.
If they want their kids to not be treated like criminals (or experience the racism that results from this stereotype), then they need to embrace and enforce an anti-criminal/anti-gang culture within their own communities, and it has to be on all levels. They need to stop having children out of wedlock which only exacerbates the never-ending cycle of poverty and criminal behavior, and they need to stop excusing criminal behavior by blaming it on “whitey” or other external forces that have nothing to do with their kids’ criminal behavior.
By embracing “black music” that denigrates women, other black people, white people, etc. they are fueling the fire of racism as well. They need to put a better, more positive face on “Black Society” in a number of ways, and that can only be done from the inside. Time to stop blaming all of their ills on the white man and start doing more to better themselves.
