Are race relations as bad as ever in America. I don't think so. Much is the media. Never forget that the media wants a story, not necessarily the truth.
THE SIXTIES REVISITED. I was on the way to Vietnam when riots erupted over the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Amazing that few things have changed about race in the country. African Americans accusing the police of being heavy handed and the police accusing the protestors of being violent.
I thought the former mayor of Ferguson was close to the truth. On the "News Hour" when asked about racial profiling, he said something like, "When a policeman sees a car with expired tags, he is going to pull it over. The vast majority of the time, the car owner is an African American who can't afford to pay for tags. This is 80% of the time. Is that racial profiling? So, issue is as much economic as race?
These little townships around St Louis have the vast majority as blacks. Yet the elected officials and police are mostly white. What is this?
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