Racism a 'systemic problem' in US
The United States has a “systemic problem” with racism as racial bias persists in society due to deep-seated physiological conditioning, an investigative journalist and activist in Washington says.
“We have a systemic problem and bias and the actual problem is neurological,” said Susanne Posel, chief editor of Occupy Corporatism and US Independent.
She made the remarks after US President Barack Obama acknowledged on Friday that a federal investigation about the Ferguson police department exposed an "oppressive and abusive” police department in the city.
A US Department of Justice investigation released Wednesday revealed widespread racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement and court practices within the Ferguson Police Department.
The federal report is the result of a months-long probe triggered by the last summer’s shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michel Brown by white officer Darren Wilson in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, which led to massive protests across the country.
“It’s impossible for Darren Wilson to leave behind his racial bias and prejudice when he puts on his uniform, it’s just physiologically impossible, and that is the reason why Michel Brown is dead,” Posel said Saturday in a phone interview with Press TV.
“These officers are supposed to detain these people because they suspect that they might be involved in a crime,” she added.
“There is an exuberant amount of arrests when you compare white Caucasian to African American and Hispanic (people) in Ferguson,” she said.
Obama himself was the target of some of the racist emails from police and courts employees in Ferguson which were uncovered in the Justice Department investigation, with one employee calling the president a “chimpanzee.”
An email sent in 2008 said Obama would not be president for long because "what black man holds a steady job for four years?"
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