Coming from a young black male perspective, kind of crazy and disappointing. I fear for my sons and nephews as they get older and are profiled. System may have worked as structured but I don't believe justice was served. Like Rosa Parks, perhaps this case leads to change. Time will tell.
Um. yeah. Utter bullshit.
There is no difference, really, between the races when it comes to crime or character. Just who is more likely to get charged, arrested and convicted.
Maybe the one who should be working on character is the type of person who still believes otherwise---despite all the available current information and statistics.
The exhibit I attended pretty much presented this case with a ton of statistical data and historical relationships to our political structure. The key relationship focuses on economic level, not race.
poverty has always been the real difference, lake.
anybody with white trash cousins in the south (and we all have them) can tell you the crime stories.
Its the same as old Bill's crazy opinions on black people and food stamps. 68% of food stamp recipients are single white women living in poverty.
The statistical reality just doesnt penetrate the stereotypes.
Amen Stephen
It angers me when Southern white rednecks infer that all food stamp and welfare abuse is black. I know as many whites on both, probably more.
Of course there are lazy bums of both races taking advantage of government assistance, but so may white people want to blame the abuse on blacks.
Those programs are sad necessities and most of the people who use them are in real need. But we have become such a greedy selfish society we resent our tax dollars going to help them.
The wealthy abuse the system just as much as the poor, yet they never get called out.
What are we if we can't help our neighbors in need? We don't mind our tax dollars being used to kill men, women in children in foreign lands, but we don't care if people in our own country are starving.
The GZ/TM horror show is a prime example of the abuse of guns, power and the disrespect of human life.
My rant on Social programs and how much so many people hate them, for me, is another example of our disrespect of human life.
I was brought up in a household that taught respect for EVERYONE. Young, old, rich, poor, mentally or physically disabled, black, white, Hispanic, Mexican and so on. I was taught to obey the law and especially in a volatile situation, let the police do their job. I was taught to work and work hard and give your employer your best. Not to resent people better off than you.
I was also taught that it was not evil if due to circumstances beyond your control you had to take advantage of programs designed for this purpose. And by no means resent others who also had no choice.
For me this horrible tragedy is just another example of where we are at this point in time and our misguided view of fellow humans of every race.
