Supporters of President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Stephanie Keith)
In a virtual interfaith seminar meeting earlier this school year, a Black student from St. Benedict s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey, shared that he d been followed by a police car while skateboarding through a park in a sweatsuit. He realized from that day on that if he s ever going to be skateboarding in the park, he needs to watch what he s wearing, said Daniel Bank, another student in the seminar, from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston.
Because Bank is white, he said, he knows he would not seem suspicious to a police officer were he to do the same thing. The disparity made an impression on him. With instances like that, you can see this line that separates what white people and Black people can do, not because of anything except for the color of their skin, Bank said.