Our sons know they could be the next Michael Brown. But they should never surrender

The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 12, 2014 | Claudia Rankine

[2ndDivisionVet]

Two months later, too many young men must still contemplate their mortality in the way of Ferguson.

The drive to Ferguson prepares me for Ferguson. Once out of downtown St Louis, county after county radiates a pervasive poverty: abandoned malls, boarded-up stores, homes in disrepair, the occasional fast-food place, gas stations and, finally, the Ferguson Market & Liquor store on West Florissant Avenue.

Around the corner on Canfield Drive, I pull into the parking lot at Red’s BBQ. The owners have set up outside their establishment because a few nights before, protesters caused extensive damage to the restaurant in a show of defiance. This is two months ago, when the history books began to document Ferguson, before more than a thousand protesters came to St Louis this weekend to stand against the continuation of the police’s self-named “low intensity warfare” against young black men. But in the August heat, I look around at the burnt-out buildings and the roped-off areas and I finally understand, fully, that I am in the midst of the continuation of the LA riots of the 20th century, where the beaten black male body has been executed publicly, in the 21st.

Michael Brown’s memorial is set up halfway down Canfield. The memorial is constructed out of stuffed animals, flowers, homemade signs. “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” is itself memorialized on drawings, and t-shirts....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[ClearCase_guy]

Black racism is tiresome. They hate whites. I get it. They cause all kinds of problems for themselves. I see that all the time. And they blame me. It’s quite boring.

[rktman]

Wow. What great advice. Don’t surrender, get shot. Sounds right. Fookin’ idjits! Stand up to THE MAN! You too can be a wanna be martyr.

[niteowl77]

Carefully constructed agitprop.

Mr. niteowl77

[GeronL]

The comments are nauseating too

and I think it is conservative posts that are being removed

[junta]

And evil

[JennysCool]

“Hands Up Don’t Shoot” is itself memorialized on drawings, and t-shirts

"Hands Up Don't Shoot" was confirmed BS about the third day of this "event." They just can't let it go.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

” county after county radiates a pervasive poverty: abandoned malls, boarded-up stores, homes in disrepair, the occasional fast-food place, gas stations and, finally, the Ferguson Market & Liquor store on West Florissant Avenue. “

Well, well now.YOU idiots voted for Dems decade after decade, what did you expect? Either get off the Progressive Plantation or STFU!

[Eddie01]

“Our sons know they could be the next Michael Brown”

Good.

You think I care about the anxiety level of Violent Racist Criminals?

[deport]

Ferguson MO. has a population breakout as follows.
Population in 2012: 21,135

Males: 9,279
Females: 11,856

City Government:
Council Members: 6 .. 2 from each of the 3 wards
Mayor elected at large

•Black alone - 13,753 (64.9%)
•White alone - 6,494 (30.6%)
•Two or more races - 437 (2.1%)
•Asian alone - 263 (1.2%)
•Hispanic - 156 (0.7%)
•American Indian alone - 34 (0.2%)
•Other race alone - 45 (0.2%) •Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 23 (0.1%)

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This population needs to become active in their government get elected and change
things as they deem necessary. There is one minortity member of the council.

[jumpingcholla34]

Have the Michael Browns of the world and their supporters ever wondered what would happen if they got jobs and stopped committing crimes? Would the “war on young black men” just possibly come to an end? Is this idea just crazy, or is it crazy and racist?

[ex91B10]

...county after county radiates a pervasive poverty: abandoned malls, boarded-up stores, homes in disrepair,

Despite the expenditure of trillions in the war on poverty.

Stop wasting taxpayer dollars on these animals.

[Ben Mugged]

So their sons are thugs too?

[Celtic Conservative]

To: Claudia Rankine.

From: Celtic Conservative.

Ma’am:

Oi, shut yer gob you scolding harridan!

Sincerely,

CC

[Sasparilla]

Surrender? Nah. Keep firing at the cops till your 9mm jams.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Vonderrit was a fractious youth
Spoiling for a fight.
He always took his Ruger 9
When he sallied forth at night
But grimed for lack of proper care
His chamber would not free
Leaving him, alas, outgunned
17 to 3.

[bubbacluck]

Well, if I attack a police officer and then come at him again while his gun is drawn and pointed at me, then I will become Michael Brown.

[Nervous Tick]

>> too many young men must still contemplate their mortality in the way of Ferguson.

Young men of all colors can distance themselves from a shortened life span by staying in school, working for a living, respecting others, and avoiding drugs and criminal behavior.

[RginTN]

Interesting that leftists are approving of violent protests.

These same leftists would be outraged if Tea Party activists responded with violence after the IRS targeted them.

[dfwgator]

If they act like Michael Brown, then, yes, they will be the next Michael Brown.