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I see this keep getting mentioned in the media and on here:
Two-thirds of Ferguson's population is black, and yet the mayor is white, and so are five of the six city council members.
The police chief is also white. There are only three African-Americans on the 53-person police force.
How many blacks applied to be officers and were rejected? How many blacks ran for city council or Mayor?
Nobody can seem to answer that, but everyone bitches about the racial makeup. If blacks aren't trying to be police officers, then yes, there won't be many on the force.
If the black population in this town wanted a black mayor and city council members, they would be there.
2/3 of the population is black and that would elect anybody, so the question is why are those seats held by whites?
I think the color of somebodys skin matters more to media outlets than to the actual residents of this area.