Musa: Recent killings show institutionalised racism in US

Imam of Masjid al-Islam in Washington Abdul Alim Musa says the killing of African-Americans in the US shows an institutionalized racism in the country, Press TV reports. "It is not an individual problem. It is collective. It is institutionalized racism," he told Press TV. The killing of black people in the US brought to the media after several cases of murders committed by white people. In one case in February, unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in Florida. "Even if we solve Trayvon’s problem, we don’t solve the millions of other problems and killings around the country," Musa said. "I’ll give you an example. Today on National Public Radio, the National Public Radio was showing sympathy toward the killer of three black people in Oklahoma… If a black person kills a white person, this person is shown no sympathy in the media, in the court or other way," he argued. There have been nationwide demonstrations across the US following the killing of Martin, which raised the issue of racial profiling in the country.