Obama and Ferguson

[Brian37]

BINGO, but no, it was also about Brown too. What you posted is part of it. Humans with dark skin in America are not allowed to make the same mistakes light skin humans are.

Even if I had illegal pot on me, walking down the street, or even if I had just shoplifted and shoved someone, I am less likely to get punished as severely ON AVERAGE than someone with darker skin.

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My friend John also agrees with me about whom is hurt more in America by the economy and being punished harsher by crime. John however is not a fan of the term "white privilege". John has a southern draw, grew up in a poor family and can point out family members who voted for Clinton but hate blacks.

There are bigots in both parties. But even with that, even with other dark tone humans living in America that saying "we should not tear up our own shit". None of that changes the numbers or our social conditioning, for the reasons you posted above.

It should be about a political system and one party that has consistently pitted us against each other.

Some of this climate is intentional because some people are bigots and don't care. Some of it is unintentional and otherwise agreeable people dont understand so it is easier for them to blame than to understand.

It should be about economics. I think we still have old school politics and while the one bright light is that younger people are not buying into the divisions of their parents, the issue is still there.

If Obama's election was a good argument for a post racial society, we would not have seen the sudden uptick in paranoia and rise in hate groups. No other president in our history has seen this level of negative reaction.

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The real issue should be about economics. The real issue of why our divide is repeating is evolutionary. Humans fear change. When humans have control or a majority in any given society, and they see that power shifting or the population changing, it causes fear.

Please explain why we should shift the topic from racial discrimination to economics. There is indeed racial discrimination, and I'm sure Brown's color played a part in this death, I don't see that his economic situation did.

Because ALL human behavior, majority or minority is linked like any other species to the same thing, access to resources. To ignore this hurts the majority while hurting the minority as well.

Currently as it has been, even if you want to claim it has gotten better, there is still a huge gap between blacks and whites when it comes to how poverty affects them. There is still a huge gap between how blacks are treated even over mere tickets, and even when they make it to the back of the police car, if convicted of a similar crime as whites, ON AVERAGE will receive harsher fines, harsher punishments. And unarmed blacks are more likely to be killed by cops than whites.

Now if we are working to reduce this gap, then you have to accept that it is a problem in the first place.

The reason other westernized countries do not have the level of racism America has is because they do not have the pay gap we do, and the gap between different segments of their societies is minimal because the lowest paid there is proportional to the top.

So if you want to stop racism, you accept it first and accept that economics are the way to reduce divisions.

It really is no difference in any ecosystem with any other species. You have diversity, and you have inequity, but if one species becomes too dominate it can upset the balance and eventually even hurt the dominate species in that ecosystem.

The real problem is a class issue, but we wont be able to get to that point as long as poor whites and poor blacks and middle class whites and middle class blacks are pitted against each other.