"Negative View of U.S. Race Relations Grows, Poll Finds."-New York Times.

Not surprised to hear that!

Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative in the aftermath of the death of a young black man who was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and the subsequent unrest, far eclipsing the sentiment recorded in the wake of turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., last summer.

Baltimore was a "binding moment" for me as well. The racist black attacks on white people and on the police angered me deeply. The political correctness of Official (Black) Baltimore was worth only mocking. The decision to charge some of the police officers with murder and manslaughter was deeply disturbing genuflection to political pressure and hence corrupt.
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The poll findings highlight the challenges for local leaders and police officials in trying to maintain order while sustaining faith in the criminal justice system in a racially polarized nation.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. That figure is up sharply from 44 percent after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson in August, and 43 percent in December. In a CBS News poll just two months ago, 38 percent said race relations were generally bad. Current views are by far the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency.

I do not know what the historical poll numbers show but in my view race relations are worse under Obama than under Bush43. I thought George Zimmerman was properly arrested in the Trayvon Martin shooting. I thought he was going to get convicted. I was not surprised at the verdict of acquittal once all the evidence was adduced at trial--Zimmerman was bloodied by Trayvon, there was no doubt of that. I winced when the president said, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." That had nothing to do with the merits of the case. If I was president and I said my son looked like George Zimmerman I would have been rightly excoriated as prejudging the case by personalizing it. That is what the president did and it was wrong. Black protesters were carrying signs calling for
Zimmerman's conviction before he was arrested! It didn't matter to them what the evidence was.
Obama's team properly declined to file federal charges against Zimmerman.

The Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri however was an entirely different matter. "Hands up, Don't Shoot!" "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" was a lie! Brown was not shot with his hands up, he attacked the police officer in his patrol car. The president sent General Holder to Ferguson and had the FBI swarming all over. NO charges filed by the feds. 

Some of the same activists who were involved in organizing the Ferguson protests and riots--baseless as regards the shooting of Brown--were involved organizing the Baltimore protests and then riots. They had gotten their advanced degrees in Ferguson and applied their education in Baltimore. Racist black thugs attacking white people and looting and burning businesses was the new face of Baltimore. I had no negative impression of Baltimore before all of this, no real impression at all, had no idea it was majority black and majority black run. Now I have an impression. It is an almost entirely negative impression (the one positive is no deaths and that is a BIG positive) and is directed at the majority of Baltimoreans who are black. I would not have deigned to piss on Baltimore to put out the riots' fires, I would not help Baltimore in any way, I will never set foot in the city. So yeah, those are "challenges" for "local leaders."

The negative sentiment is echoed by broad majorities of blacks and whites alike, a stark change from earlier this year, when 58 percent of blacks thought race relations were bad, but just 35 percent of whites agreed. In August, 48 percent of blacks and 41 percent of whites said they felt that way.

Way up from 35% for whites, yep. All Baltimore. Fuck Baltimore.