This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their sonPosted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, United States on 2016-10-21 20:05Z by Steven |
This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son
The Oregonian
2016-10-16
A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided.
“But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said.
When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was a safe space. She was the lightest in every family photograph, a white mom married to a black dad. Together, they raised four kids, each with their own mix of ethnicities and football allegiances.
“You can’t hate a race because you’re all of them,” Natasha Bruce told the kids. “Unless it’s red and gold or blue and green, we don’t see color.”
But other people do.
In August, their youngest died after a hit-and-run that prosecutors now consider a hate crime. Larnell Bruce Jr. was 19 years old, black and Latino. Police say a couple with ties to white supremacist gangs argued with Bruce outside a Gresham convenience store — and then chased him with their jeep as he walked away, running him down…
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