Dealing with the interaction between the police and minorities is always going to be a hard thing to argue. I can’t keep that many stats in my head, and I’m not that great of a debater anyway.

And a lot of people will always veer any discussion of race in that direction. I probably should have brought up “what does that (Brown’s shooting) have to do with flying the flag” (see, debate skills). Even with my parents - who, by the way, have black friends - will talk about how if blacks would just act right around cops, no one would get into trouble. I can point out all sorts of things about how the stats show the differences between the way cops deal with minorities and whites, but it doesn’t quite sink in.