Vivian Paige, one of the most thoughtful bloggers anywhere, posts about what happened on her blog this week.

It’s a sad and sorry tale. Her conclusion: “So it is a sad state of affairs in America today, one in which blacks and whites talk past each other instead of to each other. It is a sad state of affairs when people make assumptions about a person’s beliefs simply on the basis of race. And it is a sad state of affairs when people make excuses for injustice.”

We couldn’t say it better ourselves.