Cultural/Emotional issues

This article really upsets me.  No matter how someone feels about the racial issues going on in our country, the idea that shouting racial slurs at kids is a good answer is beyond understanding to me.  They had to call the police!  People were so aggressively shouting racial slurs at twelve year olds that the police had to be called in to keep the peace.  What is wrong with these people?

Actually, I can answer that.  What is wrong with them is that they are feeling attacked. They genuinely didn't understand that American society has always been set up to benefit them.  So now that people are speaking out against that, it feels to them that people are trying to take away their rights and their way of life.  That's not what's happening.  We're just trying to create a more equal society, but it's what they believe is happening.  So they're fighting for what feels to them like their lives.  

But it's not their lives that are the concern here.  It's the lives of every African American. This society needs to allow all of its citizens the rights of "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness", as stated in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

I understand feeling attacked and unsafe.  It's miserable.  But it's time for people to recognize that their feelings are their own responsibility.   It's not acceptable to take out their feelings on other people.  And any objective reading of this situation shows that demanding equality in our supposedly great nation is a correct action that every American should support.