re: #51 CuriousLurker

I understand your point but police brutality has been a problem here for decades — long before President Obama came on the scene. Seems like the police just don’t have a good relationship with lower income people, many of whom happen to be Black. The Rodney King assault and subsequent jury verdict acquitting the police officers stands out to me as a seminal moment in race relations. I was living in Ontario at the time, and remember coming home from work and hearing about the verdict and just being shocked out of my mind.

Are there racists who want to punish Blacks for President Obama? Sure. But not sure that has much to do with the racial problems in Ferguson or with the overall tensions between the police and Blacks nationwide.