Child shot for asking a homeowner for directions

Some white people are sooooo racist. People of colour need to be careful around them and quickly determine if whites theyre interacting with are racist or not.

Poor kid though, this is the reality of being black in America. Im glad its better here.

Don't forget to emphasise that the kid was black. It probably wouldn't be an international news story otherwise.

Shooting at some kid because he's on your lawn is quite the overreaction, though. Hence the charges. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to hear the man's side of the story.

The ex firefighter says it was a completely different story to the boys.

So we shouldn't jump to conclusion and accuse the guy of being a "racist". When we were not there to witness what happened.

It isn't about he said she said. His own security system has the evidence in audio and visual footage.

The guy and his wife are both racist.
After they had shot him they had said, "why did these people pick our house." and they never called an ambulance, it was the neighbours who did.

I mean in terms of why he overreacted. Maybe he's been burgled before, maybe he's been harassed in his home, we don't know. I like to have more context with these things.

We also shouldn't jump to racial conclusions, seeing as white people will shoot at other white people for stupid reasons with shocking regularity in the US.

And you should probably edit your title and OP as the kid wasn't actually hit (thankfully).

Before i opened the link, i knew the kid would be black. No suprise there

Every interaction between a black person and a white person should be viewed racially. I'm just quoting the US Supreme Court though

It isn't better here.
We just have a lot of white-apologetics if that is what you'd call it.
There's a girl in my school of west african and irish descent who completely disowns her black side and tries as much as possible to be "more white".
On the news recently, there was some Ash person from Exeter University who wanted to lead a race war against his own colour etc.

The reality of being non-white and trying to overcome all this systematic and personal racism is terrible. Especially in the case of this boy who is a scholarship pupil and had to walk through all the rich people homes of his friends for the first time and ended up being shot because they thought he was a burglar.

This happens here in the UK too, Stormzy had the police break his door down as his neighbours thought he was a burglar. The correlation between these two instances is that they are both black and were so unfortunate to be in a "rich-white only" area.

No it shouldn't. That's just the wrong way to think.

Something shouldn't be deemed racially motivated unless there's good evidence for it. The victim being black and the perpetrator being white is not in itself evidence of anything. But for some reason people keep jumping to "racism" every time this happens, as though that's the only reason anything unfortunate could ever happen to a black person at the hands of a white person. It's completely irrational.

Race is always considered in such crimes and you failing to accept that is you not understanding how the US Supreme justice system works.

Some white people are sooooo racist. People of colour need to be careful around them and quickly determine if whites theyre interacting with are racist or not.

The reality of being non-white and trying to overcome all this systematic and personal racism is terrible.