Posted on 08/17/2015 4:43:57 AM PDT by rellimpank
The new asphalt rectangle in the middle of the 2900 block of Canfield Drive, Ferguson, Mo., seemed like a scab formed over a deep wound. It was where the fallen body of Michael Brown lay for 4½ hours in 107-degree temperatures on Aug. 9, 2014.
Stuffed animals had been piled oh, so tenderly upon the site. Our interracial group formed a circle around the memorial and prayed.
Ten other women had joined me on a mini-pilgrimage to Ferguson I had envisioned and planned since May. It was our free day out of a one-week global assembly of women in religious life held August 2-7 in St. Louis. While others went to tour the arches or explore other more entertaining venues, we left the beauty and comfort of the Mercy Retreat Center and headed toward Ferguson.
Driving around Ferguson we could see where damaged buildings had been repaired, but in the atmosphere one could feel lingering brokenness, anger and pain. Since the Michael Brown tragedy, any healing of the Ferguson community was disrupted, like a scab torn open again and again, by the nationwide wave of similar shooting deaths that followed, including Samuel DuBose, Walter Scott and more. Added to that was the traumatic shock of the June 17 massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C.
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“...one could feel lingering brokenness, anger and pain.”
And it will never go away.
If his parents had put in 1/10th the effort into raising him as they have tried to capitalize on his death he ‘d still be alive.
I think I'm gonna puke
The innocent black kid football player who got shot by an illegal gets no monument but a thug does? Screwed up world.
Wannabe thug Trayvon and 292 pound thug Michael Brown-—Obama’s two sons.
Can’t they put a community marijuana plot by the curb there?
Every time there is a riot, there is a “living memorial” to Michael Brown.
The way I figure it that if he was so violent and got himself killed so early into his 18th year, the prior 17 must have been quite littered with similar debris.
In general, I am encouraged by the comments on stories. While the media is hopelessly Leftist, when comments are allowed, many are full of common sense, unlike the reporting.
A big ugly thug slaps a convenience store clerk and steals Swisher Sweets to load with dope. Then this monster linebackeresque POS tackles a police officer and tries to take away his gun and is righteously shot to death is no reason to riot. The brother should THANK the cop for removing this bully from their neighborhood.
I would erect a large cigar, some dope, and a giant thug shoving a small store owner around with a warning....don’t let your sons grow into “gentle giants”.
Medicinal use only(?)
Who came up with that get-up? The kid looks like a giant watermelon.
—yep—especially when the J-S does one of its typical anti-gun hit pieces—the responses usually take it to pieces in about a ten to one ratio-—
Watermelon is racist!
Why, for what purpose?
Amen...The greatest tragedy in his life happened long before the day he died.... He was born to people who either didn’t care or didn’t care they didn’t know how to raise a child....
I don’t know if I’d be able to resist doing burnouts on it . . .
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