Originally posted by DDS62:
Holder's report on the investigation concluded wide spread racism within the police department based on racist emails and data showing stops, citations, & arrests all predominately made upon Blacks. Unfortunately the report never factored in, although widely known, that the population is 67% black. Furthermore the report never made any sort of subjective or factual analysis whether the stops, citations and arrests were justified or not. So basically the report is based on little more than the racists emails. Which are unacceptable, but which could have been corrected by simply firing those that wrote them.
I personally believe the police department was indeed corrupted by racists feelings, but the question is would it be any different considering the Freguson community? I truly believe even if an entirely black police department were (will be) put in control, the racism will continue - with blacks on blacks. I can tell you for a fact that there are a whole lot of African Americans that do not like the kind of behavior that is Paramont in Ferguson anymore than the racists that dominate this board.
And that is what is so troubling to see here. the general consensus that all blacks are like the looters and the apologists in Ferguson. That is not true, it appears to be true because of the apologists we see on TV and racists feelings held by a huge portion of whites.
There is simply no excuse for the people of Ferguson elevating Michael Brown to a level of a martyr and no excuse for witnesses at his killing giving false testimony, and no excuse for the multiple riots and the widespread looting. There is a real problem in Ferguson and Holder's report never bothered to take that into consideration. Indeed if the people in Ferguson want justice and equality and respect they can get it by simply living and behaving like other people all across this country.
And yes Holder and Obama's public embrace of that investagation report was unwise, and done for the purpose of apeasing the racial hatred the blacks hold toward the police in Ferguson, but only accomplished more hatred and likely the shooting of two innocent policemen.
And indeed maybe things will return to normal in America when Obama and Holder leave office, but it will not be because the racism will be gone, only because it will again be covered up like it has always been in America. There is just so much wrong with almost all viewpoints and all sides taken in this matter. Racism is alive and well in America, on both sides.
