Originally Posted by kane

The reason there is little or no outrage is because white people don't have a history of being repressed and abused in this country simply because of the color of their skin.

Many black people were still not allowed to vote in this country until 1965. There was a black man lynched by KKK members as recently as 1981 (there may be others more recently, but that is the last documented case). These wounds are still fresh in the minds of many black people so when a cop shoots and kills a black person in a situation where some people feel it was unwarranted it feels like an extension of that oppression.