A summer afternoon in Point Loma. The checkout line at Home Depot. All she sees is the man's color. A December afternoon at Mission Beach. Skateboarders rattle by.
Golden youths play volleyball in the sun.
Children's laughter accompanies their dance away from the waves. Ex-Navy SEAL Kendall Martin, who is black, is passed by a bicyclist with a shaved head, a goatee and a .44 magnum. The man with the revolver fires as he shouts a racist slur. Martin raises his hand and it explodes in blood and pain. In February, a University City dentist takes a phone call at home.