We just accept violence against African Americans as Normal now.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/ta-nehisi-coates-accept-violence-african-americans-normal/

One is very similar to what happened during the civil rights movement. There was a technological leap. And so the kind of violence that you saw on Bloody Sunday wasn’t particularly remarkable in American history for black people. But suddenly there were news cameras there, the capacity to carry that out all across the world all of a sudden. And everybody could see it blatantly for what it was.

You have a similar revolution with the presence of cameras everywhere. People have the ability to actually see the police officer shoot Walter Scott in the back. I also think having an African-American president, just the mere fact of having the leader of the free world be black has thrown all of this stuff in relief.

The president has repeatedly, time after time, been called upon to respond to this stuff. And there’s been some expectation, as an African-American, he will respond in a way that maybe someone else would not, that he would have more insight in a way that someone else wouldn’t. And so I think that has ramped up everything.