I do try to understand the anger and frustration of the African American in the United States. I say that because try as hard as I can, I have never walked a mile in their shoes, nor can I.
Beginning in August of 2008, my education really began about racism in America. My education had and has been limited by spending most of my life in Texas with some traveling across the South, up to Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, and California.
I worked in the institutional racism of the criminal justice system in Texas. The demographics of the prison population did not…