03-13-2018, 08:05 AM
The sad fact is, before the evening when the news got hold of the story, Trevyan was just another black teenager wandering around the neighborhood. Scared or no, nobody would have laid much attention to him. A lady called the radio station yesterday claiming to have seen him on the bridge they think he fell from downtown, but that also is unconfirmed.
Nobody would have thought to help this kid if they saw him, and that is an indictment on us as a society in general. There was a similar story here a couple years back, an autistic kid participating in a special Olympics 5k run got lost, wound up terrified wandering in the street and wearing numbers and running regalia, some old white guy stopped and rather than help him got violent and shoved him down into the street and beat on him because he was a black teen in the way of traffic.
That's the world we live in. Sad but true. People don't see autism. They see color.
Nobody would have thought to help this kid if they saw him, and that is an indictment on us as a society in general. There was a similar story here a couple years back, an autistic kid participating in a special Olympics 5k run got lost, wound up terrified wandering in the street and wearing numbers and running regalia, some old white guy stopped and rather than help him got violent and shoved him down into the street and beat on him because he was a black teen in the way of traffic.
That's the world we live in. Sad but true. People don't see autism. They see color.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.