Sheriff Clarke: ‘Assault’ on Policing Hasn’t Been Seen Since 60s

[shikamaru]

Would Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell, etc lead such a protest? What "Civil Rights" are being deprived to them because of the color of their skin?

Try equal policing and equality under the law.
Police have been getting away with abuse for decades. I'm glad this is all finally being brought to light.

Just from the protests in Ferguson, the corruption of the municipal court system was exposed.

You don't keep quiet when you are being abused. You take action.
If it is inconvenient for others, so be it.

You are aware that protesting is a right? Take it as that right is now being exercised.

Perhaps it is the false narrative of oppression leading to self-imposed defeatism that permeates the AMERICAN-born "black" race which keeps said people in this erroneous mindset. Perhaps it is people of their own "color" who perpetuate these false narratives in order to personally profit by exploiting their "own kind".

Perhaps a very real and uncomfortable narrative is being exposed all over these United States concerning policing and the justice system?
You know, it wasn't but a few decades back since we've had Jim Crow, yes?
Where we are today didn't occur in a vacuum. The past has shaped today along with lingering effects.

Immigrants & Foreign-born[edit]

Educational attainment rates change when it comes to comparing the same races against immigrants or foreign born students. Black African and Caribbean immigrant groups to the U.S report having higher levels of education than any other group.[63] Of all foreign-born U.S. residents, foreign born Africans (those who come from the African continent) nowadays have a higher level of educational attainment than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States.[64][65] They tend to be highly educated and be fluent in English. This trend was first reported in the 1990s' by the Journal of blacks in Higher Education and still continues today.[65][65]

According to the U.S census, "43.8 percent of African immigrants had achieved a college degree, compared with 42.5 of Asian Americans, 28.9 percent of immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada and 23.1 percent of the U.S. population as a whole."[66] The educational attainment amount varies by group. According to the U.S. Census, out of the African populations, Nigerians reported to having the highest level of education.

source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achieve..._United_States

There are some black and Hispanic groups in America that far outperform some white and Asian groups. Immigrants from many West Indian and African countries, such as Jamaica, Ghana, and Haiti, are climbing America’s higher education ladder, but perhaps the most prominent are Nigerians. Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet in 2013 nearly one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School were of Nigerian ancestry; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.

source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/op...cess.html?_r=0

Interestingly enough, what they have is culture. Africans in these United States had that stripped away. You can guess what the cause of that was.

I guess you won't see Nigerians, who have a much darker skin tone than "African-Americans", holding any signs or marching in protest due to being unable to achieve their goals in "racist America". Perhaps it is the content of one's character, rather than the color of one's skin, that causes one to be successful or not in 2015.

The protests are concerning police brutality as well as so-called equal application of the laws. Legitimate grievances that are spilling forth.
Your argument does not pertain to the subject matter of the protests concerning law enforcement and policing.

Glad you recognize America is certainly racist.
It has a very long and very colorful (no pun intended) history of being racist.