Editor's note: John D. Inazu is an associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses in criminal law, religion and the First Amendment. He is the author of "Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson Who? What? When? Which? Why?
As in, who gives a sh!t?
2 posted on
08/21/2014 6:06:31 PM PDT by
x1stcav
(Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“We are Ferguson” = “We are idiots”
3 posted on
08/21/2014 6:06:55 PM PDT by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
CRIME IS NOT
A CIVIL RIGHT
4 posted on
08/21/2014 6:08:39 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The ol’ white guilt trip.
5 posted on
08/21/2014 6:08:51 PM PDT by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We may not be Ferguson, but we helped make Ferguson.... I can say with confidence: I didn't build that!
7 posted on
08/21/2014 6:12:10 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I teach at Washington University, where most of my colleagues and students are white. I shop at mostly white places that feel safe and convenient. Most of the contentious issues in my mostly white neighborhood are about bike paths and trees. Many of you live in my world.”
Then why don’t you take your racial guilt, Professor, and “diversify” inner city St Louis? Funny how y’all hide behind other white people while you lecture the rest of us about race matters.
Practice what you preach, Brother. Take your family and your white friends who “think’ like you do and bring your superior attitudes, finances and resources into the areas which you think are getting such a raw deal. Let’s see how well you do and how long you last.
Then maybe you might understand why the Michael Browns and his parents, and the politicians they support, are the problem
8 posted on
08/21/2014 6:12:17 PM PDT by
A_Former_Democrat
(Michael Brown was the attacker . . . just like Thugvon. Second verse, same as the first)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lyndon B. Johnson built Ferguson and a thousand other urban hell-holes.
Liberals applauds his efforts
And of Course, Its Bushes fault.
9 posted on
08/21/2014 6:16:53 PM PDT by
Gasshog
(DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Sh!t World)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Are we human? Or are we dancer?”
—The Killers
10 posted on
08/21/2014 6:21:50 PM PDT by
RichInOC
(...somebody was going to say it. Why not me?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why yes! Yes, we are!
Because we are all vulnerable to the media lies and distortions that made Saint Charging Bull possible.
11 posted on
08/21/2014 6:24:53 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
when will the good professor be moving to Ferguson? I’m sure the realtors would love a call.
12 posted on
08/21/2014 6:26:10 PM PDT by
blueplum
To: 2ndDivisionVet
13 posted on
08/21/2014 6:30:37 PM PDT by
Lil Flower
(American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson's overwhelmingly white police force arrests blacks at a pace nearly four times higher than whitesWell, perhaps blacks commit an overwhelmingly higher percentage of crimes than whites. The fact that the police force arrests more blacks than whites means nothing in the absence of other data.
And why does it matter that the police force is 'overwhelmingly white'? Shouldn't it only be important that they are American citizens, and competent to do the job?
Where do you stop slicing the divisions? If the skin color matters - where do you stop? Cocoa colored? Dark black? Pinkish? Tan? Is 'White' defined as having 100% of your parents, and grandparents, and great-grandparents from Western Europe Extraction? Or is there a different ratio required? How about 'Black'? You must have both your parents and grandparents be of Western Africa extraction? What if there was a white person, or Hispanic, in the mix? Do they now count as 'coffee'?
Just leave it as American. Citizen. And Competent. Three categories, by the way, which I don't believe the current 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue occupant actually meets.
14 posted on
08/21/2014 6:31:56 PM PDT by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Stuff it, professor. I'm not the least interested in the issue of race unless someone threatens to burn my house down in a race riot.
White racism is not a major problem. Its not even a minor problem.
Black racism is a far more dangerous issue.
Democrats whipping up race hate in order to motivate voters, however, is a HUGE problem.
15 posted on
08/21/2014 6:43:00 PM PDT by
skeeter
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a bunch of tripe. Get the hip boots, the BS is getting deep.
Saying it again. Most of the citizens of Ferguson are staying at home like any sensible person should. Many of those on the streets are not even from Ferguson.
Arsonists, Molotov cocktail and urine bottle throwers, looters and miscreant behavior is NOT an example of a peaceful demonstrator.
When the biggest killer of black people is other black people and women pregnant with black babies, that is a black culture problem, that I had nothing to do with.
This professor can go sell his crap sandwich elsewhere-I ain't biting.
16 posted on
08/21/2014 6:43:53 PM PDT by
greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘We are Ferguson?’
Foreign opportunistic interlopers wrecking our community?
Yes, guess we are....
17 posted on
08/21/2014 6:49:03 PM PDT by
libertarian27
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am SO sick of the incessant navel gazing.....
18 posted on
08/21/2014 7:10:56 PM PDT by
clintonh8r
(It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I teach at Washington University, where most of my colleagues and students are white. I shop at mostly white places that feel safe and convenient. Most of the contentious issues in my mostly white neighborhood are about bike paths and trees. Many of you live in my world.Well why doesn't this hypocrite go move into ferguson and see what it's like. have fun a**hole.
19 posted on
08/21/2014 7:36:11 PM PDT by
Cubs Fan
(If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson does not have any easy solutions. But we need to begin by talking about the problems in a more honest and self-reflective way. We need to start having the tough conversations that many of us too often avoid out of fear, ignorance or inconvenience. The guy who wrote this is a gullible white liberal elite who thinks the solution is for all of us white people to sit and listen to all the Kunta Kintes in 'the community'... Strangely it's the exact same solution liberal elites have been pushing for almost 50 years. I'm sure the results will be different this time.../s
20 posted on
08/21/2014 7:39:38 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(New York Times headline gaffe:'Obama Outraged Over Beheading, Vows to Stay on Course')
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And as the world now knows, Ferguson's overwhelmingly white police force arrests blacks at a pace nearly four times higher than whites.So?
21 posted on
08/21/2014 7:43:05 PM PDT by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘We is all be FU#$*N Ferguson, up in here now, Mutha F&#%$R! She It’
That is more like it.
25 posted on
08/21/2014 8:37:13 PM PDT by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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