Rocker did that for us and now it is time to talk. Racial confrontations take place in every nook and cranny of the United States. Whites obviously control most of the power in our nation. While African Americans also misunderstand whites, they rarely put those whites in danger of serious physical or mental consequence. Some whites do it to African Americans, consciously or unconsciously, all too frequently.
Fear is generally the operative factor in converting hateful attitudes into perilous actions.
This where the life of Hurricane Carter comes into the equation. Here is a man who showed considerable anger as a young person. Imprisoned for nearly two decades for a crime he did not commit, Carter was another African American man who was discarded by the justice system. But because he was famous, people kept looking to help him until truth finally prevailed. Over the course of those decades, there was plenty of time for Carter's anger to grow.