Summary
Professor Richard Thompson Ford spoke is mentioned in this USA Today article on a new study which indicates that Americans see race relations as the most important issue facing the country.
African-Americans now rank race relations as the most important issue facing the country, according to a year-long study.
In June 2015, 13% of African-Americans named race relations as the biggest issues, while 4% of white Americans said the same in the Gallup survey measuring perspectives on the most important issues facing Americans.
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Richard Ford, a law professor at Stanford University who specializes in civil rights and anti-discrimination law, wrote in an e-mail to USA TODAY that the series of deaths of African-American men in police custody is responsible for these findings. He said the police incidents over the past year are similar to the race riots in the 1960s and the Los Angeles riots in the 1990s.
“The policing scandals put race back on the agenda — for now,” Ford wrote.
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