How has America changed since Ferguson? Let's consider a few ways.
For one, both the left-leaning media and black America in general have utterly discredited themselves. They have shown that they are dishonest, that they are simply not interested in the truth of things, and that their every action are informed by a seething racist hatred against white people.
Get this: In an act of insane stupidity, a violent, stoned, teenage black male (redundant) attacks a white officer, punches him in the face, goes for his gun, runs away, comes back, and gets shot to death (this is the findings of the DoJ inquiry). In response, the community canonizes him, makes a bronze plaque for him, and loots/burns down all the stores they shop in regularly.
The media completely ignores the DoJ report I mentioned above, and engaged in despicable, dishonest. Frankly, some media personalities deserve to be convicted and executed for the unconscionable incitement to violence they have engaged in - their cynical race baiting has literally killed people; there has been an uptick in the already high rates of black-on-white murders in the last year.
If the cop had been black, if the suspect had been white, 100% guaranteed this would not have been a story. In fact, the circumstances don't matter - whether it was a justified shooting or not don't matter - the only thing that matters is race - at least, to our disgustingly racist media.
So, we have a whole string now of black men killed for being stupid, in situations where white men would be killed if they acted the same way. Because white progressives in America consider blacks to be like children, there is never any discussion of whether their actions contributed to their deaths.
Meanwhile, just last week in South Carolina, Zachary Hammond, 19 years old, white, unarmed, totally innocent, not attacking or fleeing from the police - is shot in the back as he sits in a car, shot to death for no discernible reason at all. And the racist, anti-white national media is totally silent. A silence that is truly deafening.
Which brings us the explicitly racist movement #BlackLivesMatter-AndOnlyBlackLivesMatter-ButNotToBlackPeopleBecauseTheyDontGiveAShitAboutBlackLives. Painting a problem of police violence as one of police racism, when the reason police shoot blacks more is because they commit vastly more crimes and thus have more adversarial encounters with police. A recent study found that police are more likely and more quick to shoot a white suspect than a black one ('Racial and ethnic bias in decisions to shoot seen through a stronger lens'). Remember that police shoots lots of innocent white people too, more often than they do black people.
But hey, in an era where prominent figures have to apologize for saying 'All Lives Matter,' who cares about these non-black victims? So, despicable black activists have taken the issue of police violence - an issue that unites all Americans - and erased the suffering of all non-black people, turning it into the racist and divisive 'black lives matter' movement that is sure to generate good headlines but 100% guaranteed to do nothing about the problem of police violence in America, because it's diagnosis is incorrect.
We've learned, through FBI statistics and wonderful sites like WorldStarHipHop, that blacks are far more likely to engage in violent, psychotic, and destructive behavior at the drop of a hat. We have learned that black mob violence is a significant problem, with large mobs (50+ often) of 'teenagers' tearing through shopping malls, fairs, and stores at least once a week somewhere in the country, tearing the place up stealing whatever they can carry, and assaulting whoever stands in the way - just for fun.
We've learned that a white police officer holding down a black teenage girl in a rough manner is a more serious offense than black on white gang rape and murder.
We've learned that when a white man shoots a bunch of black people, it's the historic crime of the century - but when the very next weekend there are two black-on-black shootings with 10 people shot (detroit and pittsburgh if i recall), it isn't even worth mentioning except once on the local news, because blacks shooting each other en masse is so routine and ordinary that it's literally not news.
We've learned that black America is collectively not mature enough to exist as adults in a modern society, because they lack the basic adult trait of taking responsibility for their actions. Even when a black person commits the most heinous, violent, and horrible act, other black people will never condemn them; other black people will always defend them.
We've learned that the national media places a much higher value on the murder of a black person by a white than the murder of a white person by a black - the subtext being the latter is more common, so less newsworthy.
We've learned that all problems in the black community are 100% the fault of white people, forever and ever, no matter what, no matter what whites have done to help blacks. This situation will never change; all white people will always and forever owe a debt to all white people, and if they pay that debt by getting randomly murdered, well, that's not really a problem.
We've learned that blacks have a very strong racial camaraderie, a racial camaraderie that is considered literally the worst possible behavior for a white person to exhibit, worse than rape or murder.
So, what's the lesson from all this? The left leaning media and black America, united in their attitude that 'right-thought' narrative is more important than honest discussion or factual accuracy, love each other and are well suited for each other. They're just not very well suited for America or anywhere else in the western world.