| Except it's not an emotionally driven discussion, it's an issue that has been studied for decades. Saying "it's an issue of class not race" is not a hot take on the issue, it's a distraction that had been quantitatively disproven over and over again. Believe it or not people have done quantitative studies on the interaction of race and class. You can go read pretty much any study on intergenerational income mobility and find what you want to know: At every single income level blacks are less likely than whites to transition from their parents income bracket to a higher one [0] And by the way it's not just police shootings that are the issue. Minorities are overrepresented at literally every stage of the criminal justice system. They're more likely to be searched following a traffic stop [1]. More likely to be charged with a more serious crime [2]. More likely to receive worse bail terms [3]. And more likely to receive longer sentences [4]. Please try to not let your emotions overwhelm the mountain of evidence pointing to the fact minorities really do have a different experience than white people. [0] https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/economic-per... [1] https://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/TrafficStops/DrivingWhileBlack-Ba... [2] http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/NSPI201213.pdf/$fil... [3] https://www.pretrial.org/download/research/Testing%20for%20R... [4] http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/summerprog/2009/nijworkshop/Steff... |