As Way Leads on to WayWe thought things were getting so much better—race relations, that is. We had black movie stars, number one box office megastars, in fact, supreme athletes, next door neighbors of whom we thought the world and now even a black President, with black cabinet members and other high ranking government officials.
Then the tragedies splashed across the airwaves and the newspaper headlines, young black men gunned down without apparent provocation, whose murders reached the national consciousness only because the incidents were caught on cell phone cameras and posted on social media. Recent developments in the world of technology made it possible for the rest of us, i.e., white people, to see what was actually happening on a regular basis in black neighborhoods across the la
