Majority of white St. Louis residents considered Wilson’s killing of Brown justified

Evidence

Stein said out loud what poll data confirmed. Sixty-two percent of white St. Louis County residents believed that Wilson was justified in killing Brown. When asked whether the shooting raised important questions about race in this country, African Americans overwhelmingly said yes (about four to one). The majority of white respondents said that the issue was getting more attention than it deserved. Stein couched these racial attitudes within a broader story about the country. For him, we have put all of this behind us—except for a few racist lunatics. The problems black people face today, like the problem Michael Brown created for himself, are primarily of their own doing. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s post-Ferguson assessment of how the value gap manifests and how Glaude’s proposal must be judged against this white consensus.