These sorts of articles do nothing to help the situation and further contribute to the violence against the police and a racial divide in this country.

"When the authorities fail to heed community outrage, or substantively investigate, let alone discipline, the police, the situation can become explosive"

Sorry, but mob rule is not the answer. I also don't know how the police aren't disciplined. So many are being fired, even for just doing their job, that the crime rates are skyrocketing in major cities as we speak because the police are now afraid of losing their job and criminals are getting away with murder (literally).

"Trayvon Martin was walking through a gated community when George Zimmerman pegged him for a thug and shot him dead."

So why not mention the other side of the story? That Martin beat the hell out of George Zimmerman and almost killed him. Is this not relevant to the story?

"Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator, was in one of Charleston’s most impressive churches when Dylann Roof murdered him and eight others."

This isn't the same as the other. Dylan Roof was a sick racist that murdered innocent people in a church.

"I have not only never met an African American who thought they could buy themselves the advantages of a white American"

African Americans have plenty of advantages in the US: free points on SAT/ACT, bank loans that cater to minorities, etc, quotas in many different industries (Police and Fireman to name a few).

"All you can do is limit the odds. And when one in three black boys born in 2001 is destined for the prison system, those odds are pretty bad. Having a black man in the White House has not changed that."

Let's get to the root of the problem: Why are black boys born in 2001 destined for prison? I believe it has to do with a culture of broken families where 70%+ of black families have only one parent, making it that much more difficult to survive.

http://newsone.com/1195075/children-single-parents-u-s-ameri...

"When George Zimmerman saw Trayvon Martin, he didn’t see a 17-year-old boy walking home from the store. He saw someone “real suspicious”, “up to no good”, whom he assumed bore some responsibility for recent burglaries."

Just because he thought Martin was 'suspicious' or 'up to no good', doesn't mean it was because he was black.

"Even after Wilson shot Brown he continued to depict him as both physically superhuman and emotionally subhuman"

Brown was a criminal that before attacking Wilson, robbed a convenient store. "Hands up, don't shoot" never happened. Forensic evidence proved it. Why do we need to continue to defend criminals,criminal behavior, and re-write history?

"Our research found that black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent."

The children involved in many of the mass shootings in the past few years weren't treated as innocent children..and most were white. As soon as a 'child' decides to attack, kill, and hurt someone, they are responsible for their actions.

"white adults felt entitled to shout at black children – be it in the street, or on school trips"

It's not racial. I think many (including me) are sick of parents not disciplining their kids. It takes a village, right?

"Eric Garner was just a man trying to sell cigarettes in the street before he was choked to death in Staten Island"

He was arrested 30 times before this point and was not complying with police. You left this part out. They used what normally is non-lethal force, but because of his size and health conditions, he died. I'm not sure what you would like the police to do.

If a person is resisting arrest (which is a crime btw), the police need to be able to use some sort of force to arrest them.

"Tamir Rice was just a boisterous kid acting out in a park before a policeman leaped out of his squad car and shot him within seconds"

My god this article is biased. The police had many other reports of kids with guns in the area. When they arrived, he refused to put the gun down and also ripped the orange tip off the end of the gun, making it look like it was real. A tragic situation, but not as much of an example of racism as this article would like you to believe.

“Nigger, I can find something to lock you up on,” the officer told him.

You can't just say this as fact without actual proof of the encounter.