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Black people had the power to fix the problems in Ferguson before the Brown shooting. They failed.
Washington Post ^ | September 18, 2014 | Charles Cobb

Posted on 09/19/2014 12:31:39 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: Second Amendment First

The author also never gets around to stating what exactly should be done. He says more black people should vote and new faces should emerge, but nothing about what they should change to solve problems in the black community.

I guess it’s taboo to actually talk about solutions, but voices like Bill Cosby, Alveda King, Niger Innis and Don Lemon have gotten it right. But nobody feels like listening.


21 posted on 09/19/2014 2:33:55 PM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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He had me all the way up until he stated naming the ‘new leaders’ who should be listened to... that’s top down.

And the people in Ferguson? There’s a reason blacks in Ferguson are electing whites... it’s not that they don’t understand how to vote. They do. What the black community is saying - by their ACTIONS - is there’s something uncomfortable going on...

The old SNCC would work to figure it out.

SNCC was street level - and if this was 1964 Snick would know why the people of Ferguson were saying one thing and acting differently. They would talk it out, listen, and - as a group - come up with ideas and plans.
I suspect college educated blacks coming out of white liberal colleges aren’t connecting with the real black community...


22 posted on 09/19/2014 2:36:36 PM PDT by GOPJ (Great causes begin as movements, becomes a business, then degenerates into a racket.Eric Hoffer)
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Well into the Obama presidency, and in light of the Ferguson madness, is it time yet to suggest that Black people scr*w up everything they touch?

As opportunity showed itself the blacks that took advantage became successful as any white person. Those black families that stayed together were the most successful. Those broken families walked the streets of false security by not taking advantage of education and instead listened to the race batting hate preachers of hell.

23 posted on 09/19/2014 3:03:17 PM PDT by Logical me
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“Black people had the power to fix the problems in Ferguson before the Brown shooting. They failed.”

That’s racist.


24 posted on 09/19/2014 4:11:34 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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There are ten thousand Fergusons in America that you’ve never heard of. They’re all run by Democrats.

That’s the common thread.


25 posted on 09/19/2014 4:42:20 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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bump


26 posted on 09/19/2014 5:33:17 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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is it time yet to suggest that Black people scr*w up everything they touch?

Long overdue.

27 posted on 09/19/2014 7:37:54 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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From Africa to the Caribbean nations such as Haiti, and then on to American cities where blacks hold a majority, everywhere where they are the majority, there is misery and poverty. And not just poverty, but extreme corruption.

Yet pointing out such facts called “racist”.

It is far past time to address this elephant in the room.


28 posted on 01/31/2016 9:42:31 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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