When she is asked what good can come from her son's death, she draws from the lessons she has taught her students. Whites who don't understand why minorities are so upset should think about the privileges that come with their race, she says. They don't have to worry that if they buy a house, their new neighbors will be angry to see them. They can expect that at a job interview, their interviewer will look like them. We wouldn't like a monochrome world.
Human beings crave variety in every aspect of their being, except people.
One day, when she is ready to spill her heart out, she says, she'd like to share the story of Jai's death with cadets ready to enter the police force, or anyone else for whom the lessons could make a major difference.