Reply #3: Stop and think...

[SleeplessinSoCal]

Please don't automatically assume someone is bigoted because a case is presented and it appears not only unjust, but truly horrible.

We've seen cases go both ways. Just as crime goes both ways. We know there is abuse in police work. How much is another matter. We know there have been cases where some woman has claimed rape where it hasn't happened. And that is criminal.

Stop though and think about accusing a person, based on their opinion, of being a bigot. There is no proof of bigotry in believing a story like this could be true as reported. And there is reason to believe it may not be true.

Just stop and think. There's growing anger in the country. Some of it has to do with race. A lot of it is stoked by the right wing media. And much of it is being transferred over to the "birthers" movement.

The country which indicated so much promise on November 4, 2008 is becoming a distant memory - if we don't mind what we say and how we behave.