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This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Oregonian<\/a>
\n2016-10-16<\/p>\n

Casey Parks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided.<\/p>\n

“But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said.<\/p>\n

When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash.<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

But other people do.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> convenience store —\u00a0and then chased him with their jeep as he walked away, running him down…<\/p>\n