Guest Post

Is racism reasonable? Americans seem to think so.

Apparently people think it's okay to treat black people the way Alton Sterling was treated.

c. 2017 Religion News Service

(RNS) I was sitting in a restaurant when I learned that the police officers who killed Alton Sterling would not be charged with a federal crime. The banner that came across my iPhone read, “Justice Department official criticizes officers tactics, but says officer did not act unreasonably.”

At that moment, I knew that my news app was saying something very true about our country: We don’t believe it is unreasonable to treat black people the way Alton Sterling was treated.