Race Relations and the Wisdom of the Chinese Finger Trap   FOR
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Relations and the Wisdom of the Chinese Finger Trap   by Dr.
Claudia Owens Shields, Chair of the Clinical Psy.D. Department,
Los Angeles Campus   (LOS ANGELES) (July 22, 2013) The shooting
death of Trayvon Martin, and the subsequent acquittal of his
shooter, called forth many images from my own youth.  One might
expect that it reminded me, an afro-wearing child of the 1960’s,
of times when I too had been racially profiled.  Certainly it
did, but a more unlikely memory surfaced. It will serve as an
analogy that will help me explain an idea I have for increasing
understanding across the seemingly ever-widening racial divide.
A playmate had handed me a small multicolored cylinder, about
three inches long, and woven out of straw-like paper.  “Put your
fingers in it,” he said.  I obeyed, putting an index finger in e