Double standards? white guy gets shot by black cop in a similar situation days apart

[Mudhammam]

Race has a lot to do with the separation of social classes. One only needs to read an American history text to witness the injustices that have long plagued minorities in the U.S., and continue to do so. Look at the education and prison systems as they relate to whites and blacks, not to mention the housing market, which for many years worked to keep blacks out of affluent, white communities.

Ahh, no. This was the case maybe 20 years ago, but soceity is quickly dividing into the haves and the have nots. Those who have may subdivide themselves, but for the most part especially since the market crash the haves rally and support one another while the have nots continue to live fight and bicker like it was 20 years ago.

Those who have generally only want more, and have the business sense to be diverse enough to work with and cash in when and where ever they can. That is why race is not generally an issue. Those who have not hold on to the past, because this anger and hate is apart of them, and it is a lot easier to blame each other (other have nots of a different color) than to blame themselves for taking the easy out every chance they get.

You just conceded my point. So, thank you. In twenty years, after centuries of institutional racism, everything should have corrected itself? Twenty years. Listen to yourself. In what fantasy world do you live in? And the penal system, namely the so-called War on Drugs, still predominately targets minorities for "crimes" whites are equally likely to commit, while yet avoiding jail time, as current statistics demonstrate. The schools in many majority black communities remain in shambles and as Chuck pointed out already, the money in this country still primarily flows from the hands of white people to other white people.