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Originally Posted by cmfhb411

All this talk and "discovery" about police misconduct in Ferguson, MO
as an ongoing problem for example.

Fair enough. Too many cops all over the USA can't be trusted as far as you can throw them. Agreed.

Why did the community and civil rights leaders wait until Michael Brown died (or anyone else for that matter)
before ginning up all their outrage at police brutality against minorities?

Black lives matter huh?

not sure. but it seems that the city had been engaged in a wholesale shakedown for some time. did the black citizens feel there was nowhere to turn before, and then his death was the final blow? i don't know.
and that's not the only town either. look at baltimore, and having to pay to settle case after case of 'rough rides'.
there is systemic racism in this country. it's a fact. the question is how to confront it, face it, accept there's an issue, and then work on fixing it?
what's worse? racism, or people saying there's no racism? the white people in ferguson said 'ah, come on, no worries here'. but they didn't know, they'd never seen it and dealt with it, they're white.
young black kids are punished more in schools than their white counterparts fo the same infractions, and that's just the beginning.