Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
“When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.”
“Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?”