Dexter Fowler powerful post on Instagram included: "You don’t understand why we know, those officers didn’t flinch at murdering that man, because he is black." (Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com)
I think of the men and women who taught me.
I think of Iishmel, a childhood football teammate turned dear friend. We have shared meals at one another’s homes, danced at one another’s weddings, celebrated the birth of his beautiful baby girl. We talk about how we can live in two different worlds — mine white, his black — in an instant, and what can be done to bridge the gap.