[incision]

>'Just the other week Mark Cuban was lambasted by a desperate journalist/blogger who took quotes out of context and misrepresented his remarks to paint him as racist.'

That was incredibly frustrating to me as I thought Cuban's message there was spot-on. Basically, that we all have prejudices and predilections, but actions in response to and awareness of them are key.

Most of that probably would have been lost anyway, but making the horrible choice to say 'hoodie' ensured it would become a nonsensical circus.

Anyway, you're absolutely right that the conversation has to change. Unfortunately, we're locked in a sort of cold war of escalation without compromise in multiple directions that leaves reasonable people at a zero-point in the center which often feels like it's standing still.