It's not surprising at all given that black men are targeted by the police .. there is little real logical dispute of that fact and there are a plethora of academic, social, and statistical studies, commissions, reports, the Sentencing Project, the Innocence Project, Amnesty International, and a host of other agencies and organizations that attest to that fact.
So it should also not be surprising that African Americans don't trust the courts, prosecutors, or police agencies. The best scientific discovery in the past 100 years for the black community has been DNA evidence. It's gotten hundreds of innocent black men out of jail, and sometimes out of the gas chamber/electric chair.
What is surprising is that anyone would be confused why the NAACP or blacks across this country have a different perspective or why we stick up for each other. Who else stands for us?
The disparity in sentencing in this country and rushing black men off to jail has been devastating to the black community .. yet America stands silent. As long as the police and the courts aren't ruching young white men and boys off to jail for minor and first time offenses nobody cares .. that even though whites are SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT of all illegal drug users in this country. Black percentage of illegal drug use is about 14%, proportional with black percentage of the population.
Michael Vick is the new OJ Simpson and the dialouge surrounding it, in my opinion, is a sad commentary on the steps this nation is taking backwards in our uinderstanding of each other.
