Looking At Race Relations In The U.S. 5 Years After Ferguson | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

Today marks five years since Michael Brown was shot to death by police in Ferguson, Missouri, a defining moment in American race relations and giving voice to the Black Lives Matter movement. NBC’s Trymaine Lee and Politics Editor of TheRoot.com Jason Johnson join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss what has and hasn’t changed in the last five years.
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Looking At Race Relations In The U.S. 5 Years After Ferguson | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC

45 comments

  1. White Trash now run the whole country. At least Trump is doing a decent job of killing this country with debt, the USA will not be missed.

    1. Democrat ideology Mass murderers shoot up three different states!
      22 Democrat mass murders just this year in Chicago!

    2. No the communist trash haven’t taken over yet…and never will. He’ll they don’t even know their gender and at first sight of trouble they will need a safe space to hide.

  2. CATCH AND RELEASE WORKED. MIGRANTS WOULD GO THROUGH THE BORDER AND BP WOULD ASSIGN THEM COURT DATES AND 85% OF THEM APPEARED AT THEIR HEARINGS.WHEN RELEASED THEY WENT TO FAMILY OR FRIENDS, THAN TO WORK, PAID TAXES, STAYED OUT OF TROUBLE. NOW WE PAY $1,000 ADAY EACH TO HOLD THEM. DID WE NEED TO SPEND THE MONEY?

  3. Trump(ism) is a plague on this land. We will get rid of racism in this lifetime or next!
    I’m a white man, a true Aryan. That’s why I love my fellow countrymen. Black, yellow, Red, White everything but Orange!

    1. Try the American Psychiatric Association website, you can find the nearest psychiatrist nearest to you. Hope you get better soon.

  4. We have been having a discussion on Race… unfortunately the bigots won! And the left doesn’t have an answer for Trumps successful bigoty… Sad!!

    1. No one on the left has a vested interest in eliminating racism. It’s a good source of income, attention, and excuse to FAIL.

  5. I went down there during the riots, it was tiny, the media made it out to be like a whole city, it was like a small street, and i bairly saw any protestors, it was a small street in a suburb or st louis, like 6 blocks

    1. @Jamey Lane , Anytime someone is killed in the hood the news papers print the same thing, “Mom said he was just getting his life together”, “He had a job interview on Monday”, ” He was working on his GED”….

    2. Dave Schultz – Hey don’t forget the requisite picture of them with a suit on when they were 10 years old.

  6. When is the media coverage about all the Black Activist who are being “mysteriously” murdered gonna air? Never eh?

  7. It’s amazing how the think tank trolls constantly repeat the dixiecrats of old….but fail to mention the KKK actively pushes its membership to vote Republican and has done so since the 60’s….but why does it matter? The hate for Black skin crosses party lines.

  8. unfortunately, people with full bellies from lunch, with no one to rage against, from boredom, tend to attack others who have been identified by friends and family as safe targets for hate, rage, then go back for dinner

  9. You going to have some white police officers who going to maintain I guess it did that this is a white man’s world it got to be that look at the way they doing my people My Chosen People God chosen people of Hebrews

  10. You have been doing peaceful protest since MLK. How’d it work out for you? Take some lessons from Malcolm X.

  11. The US is a police/mass incarceration state; it’s just that so far only minorities have faced most of the injustice of it.

  12. Trump’s the least racist person in the whole world. According to this the race relations are fcking awesome and they get better and better. 😔

  13. I was there many, many days and nights protesting racist cops/injustice. Hundreds/thousands of peaceful protesters easily, of all colors (I’m white btw), backed by many groups and in different areas of the whole St. Louis city day and night.

    Then at night, in some areas, you had outside professional agitator groups (like literal anarchist groups) as well as just local people of all colors exploiting the situation: coming in to destroy property, taunt the cops, and throw objects at the cops, which, of course, got blamed on the peaceful protesters…who actually tried to defend the property and police and drive these masked agitators away, and helped clean up the mess long after the crowds, cops, and cameras dispersed (just like when antifa infiltrates peaceful campus protests and destroys property/starts fires: the actual students/protesters stay and clean up although they are often blamed for the property destruction).

    The cops also many times tried to goad the peaceful protesters into violence by calling them ethnic slurs and running at them, beating them, shooting them with rubber bullets (I got hit by one of those and yes they really hurt; left a bruise for weeks) and launching tear gas, etc. And of course they arrested journalists who dared cover what they were really doing (but you could see the reality on uploaded phone videos and streaming sources). I even saw cops light a car on fire, and smash store windows, and then say the protesters did it. The US is a virtual police state.

    1. I was too pregnant to become involved in the 1967 Detroit “Riots”, but watched the smoke from outside my home. A black 10 year old, who was later to become my stepson, made money during those days dodging bullets and shining the boots of the soldiers. Local communities, businesses and churches had been torn through in the creation of the interstate freeway system without input regarding these historic locations and the disruption of the neighborhoods. The people finally said that enough was enough. Hot button words like “riot” made it easier for the media to describe and relieved them of the need to explain. The Brown/Ferguson problem is evidence of an ongoing American problem that’s imperative that we correct. Trump has zeroed in on this soft weak spot in the American underbelly in order to attack us. He has no personal vested interest. His goal is simply to attack and wound.

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