Awfully tough to be black in America these days.

White police choke a black man, Eric Garner, to death in NYC, on camera, using an against-policy chokehold, justified.

A white CA CHP officer pounds a black woman bloody on a roadside: she files suit, he loses his job.

A SC white officer stops a black man for no seatbelt use, then shoots him after asking for his license when the man starts to reach into his car: man injured, cop on his way to jail, probably.

A  Louisiana black man, hands cuffed behind him in the back seat of a patrol car, has his death ruled a suicide by gunshot to front of  his chest,

A black man exits his NYC apartment and is shot down for no reason by a white officer with gun drawn looking for a burnt out light bulb, Charges may be pending.

A black man shopping in an OH store spins a empty gun he picked from its retail display and leans on it while making a phone call, and is shot by white officers, justified.

A 12 year old black boy in Cleveland waves a toy gun and ignores officer commands, and is shot dead, justified.

A Milwaukee black man asleep on a park bench is checked out by two police officers, determined not to be a problem. Third officer eventually checks his voicemail, hears the complaint, rousts the guy and in the ensuing battle pumps FOURTEEN bullets in to the citizen.

A Ferguson, MO black man may or may not have been egged on by the request of a white officer to get out of the middle of the street. A struggle ensues for some reason. The young man, found to have marijuana in his system and the suspect in an assault and robbery minutes earlier, ignores all commands of the officer, apparently, and is gunned down. Not tasered. Not maced. Justified.

In 2007 the Supreme Court reversed school integration laws in placed since 1954, with “Parents…vs. Seattle…” and “ Meredith vs. Jefferson Co…..”.

In the Sunday 23 Nov 2014 issue of the New York Times, I counted exactly two pictures of blacks in all the advertisements.

There’s a too-long history of such nonsense. I find it fascinating, and sad, that even with a black leader in the WH, we are tracking backwards, violently, as a nation. We must ask why.