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Ferguson Wrestles With What to Do Next
Time Magazine ^ | August 26, 2014 | Alex Altman

Posted on 08/27/2014 2:45:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The town is trying to figure out how to turn a tragic moment into a lasting movement.

The funeral was choreographed to the smallest detail, from the celebrities sprinkled through the church to the Cardinals cap laid atop the black-and-gold casket. A massive crowd filed past the television cameras and into the jam-packed sanctuary or the overflow rooms live-streaming the service. The ceremony was billed as a celebration of Brown’s life, which ended Aug. 9 in a hail of bullets fired by a white policeman, and the crowd heard upbeat gospel music, stirring sermons and a eulogy from the Rev. Al Sharpton. But it was also an opportunity to send a message to his mourners. “We are required,” Sharpton told them in his peroration, “to leave here today and change things.”

For the residents of Ferguson, Mo., Brown’s funeral on Monday closed one chapter and opened a new period of uncertainty. The worst of the violence appears over, and the protests are beginning to subside. Soon the television cameras will get packed up, leaving a town that has become the latest shorthand for America’s racial divide to figure out how to translate the energy, intensity and anger of the past two weeks into concrete change.

The problem is that nobody is quite sure how to do it — or what that change would even look like. The shooting of an unarmed, 18-year-old black man at the hands of a white Ferguson policeman opened all sorts of wounds that have festered for generations. Of the thousands who have tromped up and down West Florissant Avenue since Brown’s death, there are nearly as many diagnoses about what Ferguson needs now.

To some, the answer is erasing the pattern of improper police behavior that has plagued this St. Louis suburb....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; darrenwilson; feruson; michaelbrown
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Go back to work? Okay, I kid, I kid. But no, seriously.
1 posted on 08/27/2014 2:45:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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This too, like the Trayvon Martin issue will die down once the media goes home. The Street Rats will go back to doing what they do, the good Rev Al and Jesse will find another “cause” to go hustle and the robbing, killing, burning and looting will subside, at least until a grand jury’s decision is announced.

The problem in not just in Ferguson, so why all the big fuss when you have Chicago to deal with? Blacks will still be killing each other and what will we hear?..........crickets. Some black shoots a white cop and what do we hear?.........more crickets.


2 posted on 08/27/2014 2:53:39 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can you believe there are sixty (60) separate police departments in the County of St Louis? Perhaps a little consolidation might standardize administration and certainly would reduce overhead costs that could be used for more and better trained Policemen. Of course to do that would involve fights with the entrenched bureaucrats and the Unions.


3 posted on 08/27/2014 2:55:40 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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4 posted on 08/27/2014 3:08:14 AM PDT by EEGator
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Seriously, if these people would get up off their butts and take advantage of the education and employment opportunities available to them, they would be a lot better off. Give up the thug life, abstain from drugs and alcohol and stop producing new babies every year which you can’t afford to raise.

Trouble is, they want free stuff paid for by others. And if the government can’t or won’t provide it, they’ll just loot a store for it.


5 posted on 08/27/2014 3:18:21 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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They don’t have to “afford” all those babies, we’re paying for them.


6 posted on 08/27/2014 3:22:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Then there is the glaring lack of African-American political representation: Ferguson is a city that is two-thirds black, run by a white mayor and nearly all-white city council.

And then there is the 6% black voter participation in the local elections. What they should do is vote in some corrupt black politicians picked by Sharpton, then reap the spoils as the remaining whites leave. It will leave their future generations in a hellhole, but that's their problem.

7 posted on 08/27/2014 3:28:10 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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Ferguson politicians need a trip to Detroit... that is the new model for them


8 posted on 08/27/2014 3:44:03 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Next thing is to replace the white police force with a sympathetic black police force that will allow young black thugs to rob convenience stores, use drugs, and walk in the middle of the street holding up traffic.


9 posted on 08/27/2014 3:47:06 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SMARTY

You’re right; blacks have served warning that businesses aren’t safe, and their elevated racial consciousness ensures whites aren’t either.

They may as well just put up the sign and accept their lot as a welfare reservation/hive/hatchery; capitalism isn’t welcome, and socialism is the rule moving forward.


10 posted on 08/27/2014 3:50:19 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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That is the way it’s going for cities.

They will become the ‘Wild West’ where no honest or decent person would want to live, work or invest.


11 posted on 08/27/2014 3:52:05 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, they could get jobs and try to move the heck out of there.


12 posted on 08/27/2014 3:56:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Themz already working to drum up new angst. A just found audio tape of the gin shots. Really just found? I’ve got one too. New this would happen when dept of just us stuck in.


13 posted on 08/27/2014 4:02:36 AM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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“Ferguson Wrestles With What to Do Next”

Learn to get the facts before going ape rather than acting on street rumors.


14 posted on 08/27/2014 4:14:07 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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What to do Next:

Get a few thousand copies of the book “A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby Payne (race unknown).

Distribute the book and a few hundred social workers (don’t hate on me, this could actually work-some people can’t read).

Show the good folks of Ferguson that they are living every stereotype. Show them how they ARE and what they could become. In many cases, there is generational (happy 18th birthday baby. Let’s get you signed up for some government assistance!) poverty, a way of life.

Why can’t Al Sharkton help bring “his” people up, instead of perpetrating the stereotype? In my opinion, Sharkton and Jackson keep their people down, because pandering to the masses, the uninformed masses, keeps them rich. Plain and simple.

Make Sharkton and Jackson irrelevant. Get them off the stage. Ferguson needs to fix itself. But first, Ferguson needs to understand the problem.


15 posted on 08/27/2014 4:17:57 AM PDT by blu
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Organize a group. One by one get identifiable protesters from videos, execute them and put the bodies where police can find them. Write a letter of apology to the world. Ask businesses to reinvest in the community.


16 posted on 08/27/2014 4:24:18 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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More What to do Next:

Businesses stock up on sand bags and 4x8 foot plywood sheets, and especially ammo.

Brace yourselves for news Wilson won’t be charged with anything.


17 posted on 08/27/2014 4:42:05 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Corn. It’s a good place for a big corn field.

Or soy.


18 posted on 08/27/2014 4:52:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Pull up your pants and go file for reparations......

What the heck am I saying!!!!!


19 posted on 08/27/2014 5:01:50 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Next thing is to replace the white police force with a sympathetic black police force that will allow young black thugs to rob convenience stores, use drugs, and walk in the middle of the street holding up traffic.

Yes, that will happen. Maybe not quickly, but it will become the new hiring priority for that department. Standards will be lowered to accommodate this goal, resulting in a "new normal" where the cops are first in line when the looting starts next time. I lived in the New Orleans area for forty years, I've seen this all before.

20 posted on 08/27/2014 5:04:23 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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