Body-cam footage confirms: Police are just plain more polite to white people

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24. When are you going to demonstrate some respect

toward the lives of African Americans killed by police? How is it that you can't manage to show respect toward their lives rather than implying they deserve to be treated as less? In this party and on this site, we do not treat black lives as less. We treat all citizens with respect.

Ta-nehisi Coates answered your question about how Obama could be elected in a racist country.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, the legislature of South Carolina was comprised of a majority of black representatives. That was then followed by Jim Crow, voter disenfranchisement, and mass lynchings. That brief black majority did not mean South Carolina was not racist. The reaction to the short-lived black political ascendency proved otherwise.

As with the end of Reconstruction, we are currently experiencing a whitelash. Trump's election demonstrates as much. After all, how could Trump be elected in a country that is not racist? How could a segregationist become attorney general in a country that isn't racist? Why the spike in racially motivated hate crimes if racism doesn't exist?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/12/hate_in_america_a_list_of_racism_bigotry_and_abuse_since_the_election.html