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The end of childhood: How the violence in Ferguson will change its children
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | August 16, 2014 | Aisha Sultan

Posted on 08/16/2014 3:43:42 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

For the past several days, some children in Ferguson have seen a slain teenager on the street, killed by a police officer, a childhood symbol of protection. They’ve witnessed police in riot gear in clouds of tear gas, night after night, heard barking dogs used to try to control the unrest, angry shouts from protesters and police. They have heard shots fired and seen a building burned, glass shattered.

“I know that in the coming days, weeks and months children will continue to re-experience this,” said Marva Robinson, president of the St. Louis chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s not just those living nearby, but also those who have been watching the news with their parents. Children could have nightmares for years to come. They may be hypersensitve or hypervigilant around law enforcement, Robinson said.

From their parents, they may be hearing about how their community is treated unfairly, targeted or hated. Instead of new backpacks, they may carry a sense of devaluation, anxiety, fear with them too as they head back to school.

What is the eventual impact of being exposed at a young age to violence and a feeling that the police can’t or won’t protect you? You build up a wall of mistrust. You are closed off to persons of authority. You find it hard to trust the guidance of school professionals or others who may want to help you. You see them as part of a system that killed someone who looks like you or doesn’t care about children who look like you.

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


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Protestors of all sizes plentiful in Ferguson

Isaiah King Ivy, 3, makes his shirt a mask as he participates in demonstrations with his north St. Louis County family

1 posted on 08/16/2014 3:43:42 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Bawawawawawa!!!!!


2 posted on 08/16/2014 3:46:41 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Second Amendment First

Hopefully, some of them will be introduced to reality and become determined to break the dependency cycle.


3 posted on 08/16/2014 3:49:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Second Amendment First

From the article: “...a police officer, a childhood symbol of protection”.

Proof time travelers not only walk among us, they scribble for newspapers.


4 posted on 08/16/2014 3:53:36 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Second Amendment First
children will continue to re-experience... their parents and neighbors acting like a lynch mob and the response of sane people to a mob. And that's a good thing.
5 posted on 08/16/2014 3:57:52 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Second Amendment First

” Instead of new backpacks, they may carry a sense of devaluation,————————————————”

I’m sure the looters will hand out some of the stolen backpacks to the kids./s

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6 posted on 08/16/2014 4:02:27 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Second Amendment First

I wonder what these children are seeing everyday in their homes with their parent?


7 posted on 08/16/2014 4:03:12 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Parmy

There has ALWAYS been a bias against the police among the black communities in or near the larger urban centers of this country, look at any major metro area. Even years of outreach have not made much headway in overcoming this basic distrust.

The situation was not improved in the years when the counterculture ran rampant on college campuses and in government centers. The visible guardians of the existing local and state governments were the first targets, and the tactics evolved to continue to give the police power of the municipalities and states had to escalate, if chaos were not to prevail. The clash at the Democrat national convention in Chicago, in 1968, was instructive as to whom the counterculture considers to be the REAL enemy. And by all odds, their insurrection bore fruit, which they have enjoyed for years, dominating the dialogue in the Democrat party even today.

The chaos grows less contained daily. Soon the armed citizen shall be the ONLY bulwark against the horde.

Lock and load. The cops won’t be responding.


8 posted on 08/16/2014 4:06:31 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: alloysteel

Be prepared for any “unpleasantness” that comes your way. You are responsible for you and the ones you love.


9 posted on 08/16/2014 4:11:20 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
I wonder what these children are seeing everyday in their homes with their parent?


10 posted on 08/16/2014 4:20:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Second Amendment First

It takes village to warp a child.


11 posted on 08/16/2014 4:20:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Being part of the culture blacks are creating is frightening enough. Cops are the least of their worries. Those little black children are far more likely to be killed by older blacks. ...The children would be well served if the cops killed all the gang-bang blacks.


12 posted on 08/16/2014 4:20:45 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Second Amendment First

How will it change their children? Will the next dead thug who goes for a cops gun still have a pacifier in his mouth?


13 posted on 08/16/2014 4:22:08 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: pallis

Don’t you mean - more likely to be killed by momma new ‘boyfriend’?

BTW - it not as bad as the media makes it out....

East St. Louis Annual Crimes
VIOLENT PROPERTY TOTAL
1,350 1,827 3,177
annual crimes per 1,000 residents
49.93 67.57 117.49

East St Louis makes Ferguson look like a church picnic....


14 posted on 08/16/2014 4:36:55 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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I wonder what these children are seeing everyday in their homes with their parent?”

Sadly, many of these children were not conceived to have a childhood or grow into industrious adults. They were conceived as meal tickets for the parents and thus receive little nurturing.


15 posted on 08/16/2014 4:46:23 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Second Amendment First

This, Junior, is how we get a new tv.


16 posted on 08/16/2014 5:03:59 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Second Amendment First

this is perverted. the guy was a criminal thug who just robbed a store.


17 posted on 08/16/2014 5:32:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Second Amendment First

“Uncle Remus”
by Frank Zappa

Whoa, are we moving too slow
Have you seen us, Uncle Remus

We look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes we do)
Unless we get sprayed with a hose

It ain’t bad in the day
If they squirt it your way
‘cept in the winter
When it’s froze
And it’s hard if it hits...
On your nose

Just keep your nose
To the grindstone they say
Will that redeem us
Uncle Remus?

I can’t wait ‘til my ‘fro is full grown
I’ll just throw away my dew rags at home

I’ll take a drive to
Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
And knock the little jockeys off the rich people’s lawns
And before they get up
I’ll be gone, I’ll be gone
And before they get up
I’ll be knockin’ the jockeys off the lawns
Down in the dew...


18 posted on 08/16/2014 5:45:00 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: GladesGuru

I’d bet the farm that the Nazi whore, Aisha Sultan, cheers every black abortion.


19 posted on 08/16/2014 7:01:00 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: alloysteel

And by all odds, their insurrection bore fruit, which they have enjoyed for years, dominating the dialogue in the Democrat party even today.

(((
And witness also the cop haters right here on FR who claim to be conservative. One even used, in a recent comment, the old 1960s hippie epithet of “pigs”.


20 posted on 08/16/2014 7:33:51 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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