A Struggle for Common Ground, Amid Fears of a National Fracture - The New York Times
Jack Healy and Nikole Hannah-Jones
Long after her two sons were in bed, Shanel Berry kept vigil in front of the television at her home in Waterloo, Iowa, watching the week’s horror unfurl and obsessing over a single question: Was the gunman who killed five Dallas police officers black? “I just thought, ‘Please, please don’t let him be black,’” because if he was, she worried that police shootings of black men could become easy to justify.
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