Posted on 08/20/2014 11:39:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The situation in Ferguson, Mo., has led to vastly different reactions between black and white Americans.
A new Pew Research Center poll shows many more African Americans than whites say:
1.The shooting of an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer "raises important issues about race" (80 percent of blacks and 37 percent of whites)
2.The police response to the shooting has gone too far (65 percent black, 33 percent white)
3.They have no or not much confidence in the investigation into the shooting (76 percent black, 33 percent white)
As we wrote last week, these kinds of numbers were all too predictable, as they have been repeated over and over in high-profile situations like those involving O.J. Simpson, Rodney King and Trayvon Martin -- in large part because black and white Americans have vastly different views of the biases of the American criminal justice system.
The most interesting data point in the new Pew poll, though, is that even at this very early juncture, Americans as a whole see the shooting of Brown as more of a racial issue than the shooting of Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman....
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Just my $.02, your Mileage may vary.
Sad to say it but I have to agree with you . Also what you are watching is the birth of a “ghetto” literally in classic sense of the word .Business will close up jobs will disappear absolute hopelessness will set in .
If Wilson is convicted, every white cop who works a partially black neighborhood needs to quit. It would make it impossible for a white cop to defend himself against attack without going to jail.
And they will fail to recognize that they brought it on themselves and continue to blame whitey. Broken record.
The White guy should not have been there. One ventures into the lion’s den at one’s peril.
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