>I won't pretend that some people aren't racist, but no person can tell me with a straight face that the inner city culture and everything that comes with it is

>I won't pretend that some people aren't racist, but no person can tell me with a straight face that the inner city culture and everything that comes with it isn't part of the reason we have the disparity in our country. I'd posit that when the institutions of society disrespects, discriminates against, humiliates and murders members a group with impunity for generations, it's not very surprising when that group is disrespectful of society and its institutions is it? And while, for the most part (leaving aside voter suppression, gerrymandering and other mechanisms that disadvantage/disenfranchise) the government mostly no longer murders/discriminates with impunity, there's plenty of anti-African American bigotry (I use that term instead of "racism" as there's only one human race, and we're all part of it) still around. While I don't think it's constructive for those who have been/are being abused/discriminated against for nearly half a millenium to distrust the institutions that have done so, it's certainly understandable.