While it would be nice to believe that each American essentially sees events in the same way as other Americans, the fact of the matter is, that doesn't happen. In point of fact, for an absolute certainty, the way that people see events, are colored by their prejudices, in regards to race, religion, political party affiliation, and other pertinent traits in a given personality, so that, quite obviously, there is little or no argument, that one person that relates strongly to the Republican party, whereas another relating strongly to the Democratic party will listen to a given political candidate and come to two diametrically opposed opinions as to what that politician said and meant. What is especially disappointing, though, is that, many events and our perceptions of them, are colored by the color of our skin, that is to say, that, for instance, blacks and whites, do not come to the same conclusions about police and criminal justice, as demonstrated by the washingtonpost.com reporting: "Only 1 in 10 African Americans says blacks and other minorities receive equal treatment with whites in the criminal justice system… In contrast, roughly half of all white Americans say the races are treated equally in the justice system," which is an absolutely staggering difference in perception.
This means that, unfortunately, from a race perspective, we have something similar to the book, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," in that our perceptions are substantially different in many areas of everyday life because we come from different places. So too this signifies, that it is pointless to pretend that one's race does not make a difference in one's perception of police, criminal justice, job employment, immigration, schooling, opportunity, and so forth. While America has made great strides forward to address these issues, there still remains an incredible amount of work to do, which cannot be accomplished unless each race acknowledges the basis of another's persons perspective and is able to show respect as well as empathy to the other, as compared to systemic contempt or blithe unconcern.
The fact of the matter is when there are huge disparities between the races, in perceptions in America, that not all is well, that this is in actuality a symptom that things are very wrong. While one has to give America an incredible amount of respect for having tried to attempt, to be a true melting pot of different races, cultures, creeds, and so forth, this grand experiment has not come to full fruition and in order to get there, much more time and effort will have to be expended in walking in the other person's shoes, for you truly do not know your fellow man, until such a time as you are able to actually be that man, and that is indeed a very hard thing to do.
Sad to say, and it just seems a shame, that man's best friend, his dog, seems to have it all so right as opposed to common man, because your dog certainly doesn't care one iota about your race, but instead cares solely about the content of your character; that is to say, how much time you spend with him, the food that you feed him, the playtime, the quality time, your treatment overall, and your fairness.
It is fair to say that no child is born with an ingrained prejudice, so that this everyday prejudice of viewpoint is socially conditioned, and in order to remove these prejudices, understand that, we are either all Americans, all equally entitled, or we are all separate, unequal, divided, lost, and forsaken. Until such time as you are able to see each man as your fellow brother, as your fellow neighbor, there will never be peace, liberty, or justice.