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Catching A Glimpse Of America’s Future In Ferguson
Mint Press News ^ | October 20, 2014 | Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Posted on 10/20/2014 11:11:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The demographic, cultural and economic changes unfolding in America will eventually leave the country looking a lot like Ferguson today: divided between a rich, white minority establishment and a largely disenfranchised, multi-racial majority.

On Oct. 12 the good people of Ferguson, Missouri, continued to protest the unjustified shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by municipal police officer Darren Wilson. Seventeen people were arrested for participating in an unlawful assembly outside a convenience store, and the following day, 50 others were arrested as part of an organized “Moral Monday” protest challenging St. Louis’ casual acceptance of police violence and brutality. Earlier this month, protesters disrupted a bastion of white elitism — a performance of the St. Louis symphony — as well as an event decidedly less elite: a St. Louis Cardinal’s game.

Discontent over the shooting of Michael Brown is not subsiding. It has seemingly evolved into a larger movement aimed at questioning the broader foundations of the system of structural inequality that black and brown men and women face every day. Indeed, it has broken out into the larger culture as a renewed debate over inequality in general in the contemporary United States. As is usually the case in the farce that passes for American political culture these days, perhaps the most interesting arena to watch this play out was not on any actual news program, but on a recent episode of “The Daily Show” in which host Jon Stewart and guest Bill O’Reilly discussed the concept of white privilege.

Laughs were had by all of course, but the comic jabs between Stewart and O’Reilly paper over an admittedly grim reality. A recent study carried out by the journalism nonprofit ProPublica, for instance, finds that black teens are 21 times more likely to be killed by a police officer...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: blacks; economy; ferguson; missouri; whites
You do know that anyone here who is dissatisfied or resentful is free to leave, don't you?
1 posted on 10/20/2014 11:11:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A person disenfranchises themselves by defining their behavior by their skin color, the “structural inequality” is their belief structure.


3 posted on 10/20/2014 11:17:30 PM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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To: F15Eagle

“protest the unjustified shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown~~~

According to what evidence? All they have is the word of a proven liar and thief.”

mr Cavanaugh should let the grand jury know he’s already made the determination for them.


4 posted on 10/20/2014 11:23:23 PM PDT by willywill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That recalcitrant PD in Ferguson has still not disclosed what is its version of events and months have passed. The longer the Ferguson PD continues to obfuscate, the worse it looks for the Ferguson PD.


5 posted on 10/20/2014 11:51:14 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WE call an Alaskan rural community home, 100 Whites, 30 Indians 200 miles from nx nearest community. Nearest law enforcement is 200 miles away; which is actually quite nice; but we really don't have any crime to speak of anyway. Whenever I'm in Anchorage and mention to an Afri-Amer that the nearest police are 200 miles away from my town; they are envious and surprised such a place exists. Now I get along with LEO's probably cause they are so far away, ha ha. I also tend to believe if people are law abiding & honorable they should get along with the police also. I also know that all blks aren't criminals. MUst be alot more us Whites don't experience with the police for whatever reason.

Boy, I'm glad I don't call a place like that Ferguson home; something ain't right?

6 posted on 10/21/2014 12:08:29 AM PDT by Eska
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To: Eska

What does about 10 acres of land go for in your neck of the woods?


7 posted on 10/21/2014 12:31:05 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... divided between a rich struggling, middle-class, white minority establishment and a largely disenfranchised uncivilized, multi-racial majority.

I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

YMMV.

8 posted on 10/21/2014 12:46:44 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Eagles6
The Indians own all the land, always in the market to sell. WE live within sight of the upper Yukon. If you buy 40-80 acres, it is 1000-1500 dollars an acre. If you buy 4-10 acres, it goes from 2500-4000 dollars an acre. Usually one is better to buy a cabin 10-20 years old with 1-2 acres; people pass on, relatives want to sell. I see such cabins go for 50-60 gran, yet outsiders pay way more thinking lower 48 prices; so you have to be aware. This guy bought a big cabin, paid 235 K, cabin had been on market for 5-6 years for 50,000; owners couldn't sale it so they put it on the computer. THe guy that bought it thought any house was worth 200 k, was from Alabama and wanted to become a gold hunter. I didn'thave the heart to tell him how bad he got robbed.

You really have to like freedom to put up with Interior Alaskan Winters. WE came here 20 years back, never even think about leaving; heaven for us.

9 posted on 10/21/2014 12:54:04 AM PDT by Eska
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The collapse of America was self inflicted. Government has spent trillions of dollars expanding the underclass. By cradle to grave welfare systems, promoting legitimacy in the minority communities and importing people with no skills or abilities from the 3rd world.

I am sure that if the government get out of the welfare business, nature will correct the situation, and bring everything back into balance.


10 posted on 10/21/2014 1:28:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The demographic, cultural and economic changes unfolding in America will eventually leave the country looking a lot like Ferguson today: divided between a rich, white minority establishment and a largely disenfranchised, multi-racial majority.

What about the millions of whites who are not rich or multi-racial?

Are they still planning on eliminating us now that Napolitano is gone from DHS?


11 posted on 10/21/2014 2:34:32 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Legacy of 'Obama The Divider' - Racial Revenge Running Rampant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These aggrieved people should thank their lucky stars that they live in a civilized society up to this point, and that they have the choice to continue to live in a civilized society or reap their just rewards - if lawlessness ensues, their gains in the streets will become cannibalism as they consume one another trying to survive, rather than bitch about someone else's problems.

Half the reason I stay away from TV is because I do not care to enjoin myself to the misery propagated onto the viewing masses that on serve to make us all foot soldiers in the latest social crusade.

12 posted on 10/21/2014 3:03:36 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Parasites only voluntarily leave when there is nothing left to eat.

This will get to the point that the police will be so hamstrung by demands and politically correct policies that there will be no enforcement, which is what they want.


13 posted on 10/21/2014 5:01:58 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: yldstrk

It’s not up to them, the St. Louis County Police Department is in charge of the investigation.

The DOJ, however, is probably going to start leaking a little every day.


14 posted on 10/21/2014 5:03:07 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author presumes that whites will die out in America. But America is one of the very few sanctuaries left for caucasians in the world, so realistically I don’t see that happening any time soon, if ever.


15 posted on 10/21/2014 12:13:10 PM PDT by blueplum
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