I just can’t imagine why else people would believe this:
Most white Americans think their police departments treat black and white people equally — and some polling suggests recent events have left them more sure than ever.
An NBC/Marist poll released Sunday found that 52 percent of whites, compared with just 12 percent of blacks, have a great deal of confidence that police officers in their community treat blacks and whites equally. More broadly, 82 percent of blacks, and just 39 percent of whites, say law enforcement applies different standards to whites and blacks.
As The Washington Post’s Scott Clement notes, while black Americans’ ratings haven’t changed all that much from past surveys, white confidence in officers’ fairness appears to have actually grown 11 points from what was found in a September NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. It’s now higher than it’s been in six different surveys conducted by other pollsters, dating back to 1995.
https://storify.com/billmon1/herrenvolk-democracy-and-the-american-right
Clearly the races are segregated. People believe what they experience. If you don’t see black folks getting the shit kicked out of them by the cops then it’s not happening. Conversely if you experience cops being nice to whitey then they must also be treating blacks folks nicely as well. If one crazy Muslim chops the head off some reporter on TV then all Muslims must be bloodthirsty animals. At least that’s what the FOX War Network says. “Come together, right now, over me.”
As far as I can tell you’ve got two choices. Either half of all whites in the US are particularly stupid, or half think it’s only fair to shoot unarmed black folks wherever they’re found.
Particularly stupid is a good guess considering half the people vote Republican. Life isn’t as complicated as ‘they’ make it sound. If it were our leaders would all be riding around in freight cars.