Poll shows racial divide on views of Trayvon Martin case

USA TODAY: ….“There are really profound differences in the worldviews of blacks and whites,” said Vincent Hutchings, a political science professor at the University of Michigan 

Blacks in America, who have been historically and arguably continuously discriminated against, look at Trayvon’s killing as part of a long narrative of injustice, Hutchings said.

He argues that whites, who often enjoy racial privileges, don’t want to think that unarmed teenagers would get profiled and killed because it would call into question their unearned positions of power…  (more)

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