A lot of this can be laid at the feet of Barack H. Obama. Every chance he got, he assumed the cops were in the wrong and put it in the minds of the blacks that they were being singled out and persecuted by cops. He had a golden opportunity to further improve race relations in this country, and he chose to fan what were the dying embers of racism and bigotry into a conflagration. Now every time something suspect happens between cops and blacks, the flames erupt again.
I don't doubt that there are still vestiges of racism in this country. But it boils down to the old chicken or egg conundrum. Is black behavior due to the racism they are subjected to, or is the racism they are subjected to due to their behavior? I believe it is more the latter. If you want people's perception of you to change, then your behavior must first change. This is something that the blacks don't seem to understand.
This country has bent over backwards to help the blacks overcome the disadvantages that they face, but it seems that a large number of them would rather spit in the face of those who want to help them instead of taking advantage of the help being offered. Encouraged in this direction, of course, by their so-called leaders who are nothing more than looters themselves; they just loot the taxpayers and the corporations more discretely than the thugs we are seeing right now. Barack H. Obama had a chance to fundamentally change the country for the better, but chose not to. He betrayed his race and his country.
