It really warms my heart to know that we have finally reached that golden age of post-racial awareness, solidarity, and kindness amongst humankind (via Womanistmusings). Because if we hadn’t, then I would probably be reading, six days into the new year, that an unarmed, subdued black man was shot in the back by a San Francisco Bay Area subway police officer.

Oh, wait.

I have to disagree with John Burris here. There was a reason that a firearm was pulled out and used with deadly force, even though it appears that the victim had been subdued. You get three guesses as to what that reason was.