The Raging Fire of Racial Injustice

The Huffington Post's The Blog ^ | December 9, 2014 | Nick Desai

[2ndDivisionVet]

What the hell is happening in America? Are some people so threatened by the election of Barack Obama that it's open season on minorities? How did we come to this unequal and disturbing place where a white 18-year-old can carry a gun into a grocery store legally, yet an unarmed black teen is killed for being tall? Or wearing a hoodie? Or playing with a toy gun?

Many things have been said about Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and so many others. They were using marijuana. They were selling illegal cigarettes. They were menacing. They robbed someone. And, the catch-all phrase "they are thugs." Let's say 100 percent of those things are true and accurate. None of those are capital offenses and we don't empower our citizenry or our police to enforce summary executions in some real life version of the Sylvester Stallone stinker Judge Dredd.

At the heart of the unending worldwide protests around the recent grand jury decisions is the dark reality that our justice system is fundamentally broken. Neither our justice system nor our society is color-blind or equality-minded. Grand juries are made up of citizens, as are juries. That justice wasn't served in New York, Ferguson or Florida is not at all surprising when you consider that 77 percent of whites in America thought Darren Wilson should not be indicted, while 54 percent of non-whites thought he should....

[SaraJohnson]

Unless the FBI statistic tables you are looking at have a “Hispanic” category, the white numbers include Hispanics.

[Ohioan]

"Nick's" rant is pure rabble rousing of the worst order. Virtually every line is based upon false premises & outright deception.

Is the publisher really desperate to promote racial conflict in America?