Baltimore’s Segregation By Class: When Will Americans Confront The Obvious

Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Despite a black mayor, a black chief of police, a city council where nine of the 14 members are black and a black population twice the size as that of whites, a yearlong investigation into one of the nation’s largest police forces found officers made a large number of stops – mostly in poor, black neighborhoods. What’s more, in the wake of Freddie Gray’s suspicious death the U.S. Justice Department under President Barack Obama and Baltimore’s predominantly black over-class found police officers either harassed poor blacks with dubious justifications or targeted them for unlawful arrests. What Benefits Wealthy Blacks Do Not Always Benefit All...