I don't know what there is to say about it. The U.S. is a racist country and this is just the way it operates.
Find me a non-racist country. It's not a good enough excuse. We need to keep the noise going so we can have real discussions about race and class. We have gone through several evolutions on our racism, but we clearly have more to do.
There was a great Commie/Socialist paper in town years ago, the editor died and the heart of the thing died with it. They did a several month break down of our local media's handling of race and the media. I wish I still had a copy of this issue because it was fine work, sadly the paper was never online. During a newspaper or television report of a crime, if the perpetrator was black, the odds that report would say the race of the criminal was way higher. The odds of a picture of the perpetrator would appear in the paper or on the news cast was way higher if the criminal was black. A black crime victims picture would appear, or be quoted or interviewed at a much lower rate than a white victim. And it went on and on like that. I wish that I hadn't lost that issue and that the editor hadn't died, it was a great red rag that served the community well. The local paper of record changed how it reports crime as a result, now it never reports the race of a perpetrator even if the criminal is still at large. It will describe height, weight, cloths and age but won't say shit about race. I think they missed the point.