small incident escalating into something horrible. think of the way black people and white people responded when they first got the news flash of the o.j. simpson verdict. personally, i was stunned. i thought two hours of deliberation meant that the jury found him guilty. how could they not, i thought, with all the blood over the place? all the trying to escape in the white bronco with the passport to the skies? why would a beloved celebrity go racing for the border when his wife is killed? i wasn t ready for the strong outpouring of anger over the michael brown tragedy i certainly was for the eric garner killing. i saw in that video all they needed to see, that there needed to be more than a grand jury, there needed to be the real one, the kind you get after there s a trial. so as we, white and black, continue along this line of tragedy and race relations, i believe the whites among us will learn not just from their own reaction of horrible events but from the other communities