Posted on 09/14/2014 12:54:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson became a Selma-like moment for the 2010s – to the extent the stark images caused a nation to stop and reflect on the state of racial relations in America. Moreover, a new generation of activists, who were not weaned on the nonviolence of the Civil Rights Era, is coming to the fore.
Ferguson, Mo. — Burly, with tattoos and a bandanna over his face, Anthony Pruit stepped up to the Missouri State Highway Patrol captain trying to cool the tensions that engulfed Ferguson, Mo., in protests and riots this summer.
“We hurt, we broken, and we ain’t all criminals,” Mr. Pruit said.
He then pulled down his bandanna to show his face, which was by then streaked with tears. “How can y’all fix this?”
That show of vulnerability in the face of authority from a tough-looking young man became one of many iconic moments from two weeks that defined a rough summer for America.....
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B/S. Druggies, thieves, thugs and would be murderers do not a civil rights movement make.
Yep. Can’t get past the crime statistics.
Then stop acting like criminals and you'll start to heal immediately.
No. We have seen a huge PC change that wasn’t there before. The masses are not buying the BS anymore.
Unreal. The kids just don’t understand. The “civil rights era” wasn’t about stealing boxes of cigars.
Problem is, to succeed means “acting white.” Black pride doesn’t allow that.
So you don’t remember his “I Have a Blunt” speech?
Must be a human right now to rob stores...but only for Blacks.
LOL!
“Was Ferguson the beginning of a new civil rights era?”
No, most definitely not, and it’s a terribly silly question.
What Ferguson shows, if ANYTHING, is that race relations in the United States have taken a nose dive under the arch-phony, Obama, which will take decades to repair.
And it may well be the case that race relations in the US will never have the same optimism evident in the past thirty to forty years.
On March 7, 1965, approximately 600 civil rights marchers departed Selma on U.S. Highway 80, heading east to march to the capital. When they reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge, only six blocks away, where they were met by state troopers and local sheriff’s deputies, who attacked them, using tear gas and billy clubs, and drove them back to Selma. Because of the attacks, this became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
First it was homos comparing themselves to civil rights marchers, now it’s gangsta thugs-for-life.
We know the differences, even if this twat doesn’t.
Civil rights era?
No. The day OJ was acquitted was the beginning of this.
“B/S. Druggies, thieves, thugs and would be murderers do not a civil rights movement make.”
I recently saw a photo of Dr. King walking arm-in-arm with dozens of blacks and a few whites down a street. What struck me was how incredibly well dressed everybody was. Suits on the men and long dresses and gloves on the women. Contrast that with what we see today.
But until they get over that pride issue and assimilate (which doesn't mean being White, it just means being American), they are doomed to this kind of prison and poverty of spirit.
D@mn shame, but that's reality.
Along the same lines, I wouldn't be surprised if many of today's government "leaders" were former "wear some flowers in your hair" 60s hippies who cunningly put on church clothes to get elected as lawmakers to destroy the "establishment."
1 Samuel 16:7 comes to mind.
New civil rights era?
maybe one where some people are not more equal than others?
And where some are not given special treatment based on the color of their skin?
What the heck - MLK isn’t the only one with a dream.
Thx for the link.
People with jobs still got a little money left.
Lets git it.
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