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Mourners urge black Americans to take action
The Kansas City Star / The Associated Press ^ | August 25, 2014 | Jim Suhr

Posted on 08/25/2014 5:12:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown — recalling him as a "gentle giant," aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college.

But the funeral that unfolded Monday was about much more than the black 18-year-old who lay in the closed casket after being shot to death by a white police officer. The emotional service sought to consecrate Brown's death as another in the long history of the civil rights movement and implored black Americans to change their protest chants into legislation and law.

"Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard, and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this," said Eric Davis, one of Brown's cousins....

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; gentlegiant; lawenforcement; michaelbrown
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1 posted on 08/25/2014 5:12:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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like’rioting, looting, punching cops and breaking their faces, playing the knockout game on whites walking by themselves? that kind of crap?


2 posted on 08/25/2014 5:14:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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All about getting out the black vote for the resident communist.


3 posted on 08/25/2014 5:14:42 PM PDT by dforest
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Take action?

You mean like work? I don’t think so.


4 posted on 08/25/2014 5:16:53 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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5 posted on 08/25/2014 5:16:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard, and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this.....

As they pull the lever for the same party who has gotten them into this mess by encouraging putting more and more people on welfare, supporting failing (teacher union run) schools, fatherless homes, etc, etc, etc....

6 posted on 08/25/2014 5:17:00 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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The funeral was just another rallying point to keep their ball rolling. They have “Black Power” at the moment and are going to run all the way with it....and Obama and Holder will be holding their hands as they do.


7 posted on 08/25/2014 5:18:20 PM PDT by caww
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Was this a funeral or a Democrat campaign rally for November? Remember Wellstone!


8 posted on 08/25/2014 5:20:04 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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There’s a difference?


9 posted on 08/25/2014 5:20:31 PM 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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“As they pull the lever for the same party who has gotten them into this mess by encouraging putting more and more people on welfare, supporting failing (teacher union run) schools, fatherless homes, etc, etc, etc.... “

In a recently integrated (1968) eighth grade math class, I had a Black girl tell me “We ain’t got to do nothing. My momma said so.”


11 posted on 08/25/2014 5:25:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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perhaps after the FInal RIot....has been quelled....should they live through it...


12 posted on 08/25/2014 5:25:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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"Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard..."


13 posted on 08/25/2014 5:26:33 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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recalling him as a “gentle giant,”

What a bunch of horse hockey, All he every would have been is a thug and a killer, good riddance to a bad person.


14 posted on 08/25/2014 5:26:39 PM PDT by bikerman (any day above ground is a good day)
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See this was all orchestrated by Obama and the Democrats from the beginning.


15 posted on 08/25/2014 5:28:09 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Aspiring rapper. What gets me is that these people think that’s a legit life plan.


16 posted on 08/25/2014 5:29:06 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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17 posted on 08/25/2014 5:30:33 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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"aspiring rapper . . ."

Yes, it has an unfortunate ring to it, kind of like "mugging-school student" or "apprentice thief."

18 posted on 08/25/2014 5:31:32 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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like’rioting, looting, punching cops and breaking their faces, playing the knockout game on whites walking by themselves? that kind of crap?

Yes, that is exactly the type of peaceful action they are referring to. Just what MLK Jr would have advocated, if you listen to his “family”.


19 posted on 08/25/2014 5:32:12 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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Urge black Americans to......

.....shun Rap “music?”

.....help police eradicate the gangs?

.....foster 3Rs education?


20 posted on 08/25/2014 5:32:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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