Perhaps you already have your answer on the ground, Mrrzy. It may be that the communities concerned aren't prepared to yield their oppressed minority status, the question being why: are they still oppressed, or are they using it to gain advantage? Here in the UK, they are still oppressed: a policeman is on a murder charge for not giving someone with a very similar profile to Michael Brown the opportunity to surrender. As an outsider, it looks very much as though the use of force by the Police is disproportionate, and therefore justifies the oppressed status. Now, it is equally true that the US Police as a whole are heavy-handed, raising the question whether the entire country is an oppressed minority. And that, my friends, is why I have no intention whatsoever of going there: in the UK, we would never accept that level of imposition by the public authority. Indeed, we are starting to get concerned because our Border Agency is being supplemented by FBI, whose norms are not our norms.