Posted on 10/17/2014 7:48:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ST. LOUIS, Missouri If the protests in Ferguson and St. Louis in recent months have an anthem, it isnt We Shall Overcome, or Wade in the Water, or any other civil rights-era song. Its a darker, more confrontational song Lil Boosies F*** the Police.
When the chorus of Lil Boosies song wasnt blaring on a giant sound system carted through the crowd at night, it showed up in chants or printed on posters. As night fell, the protests morphed into a party, with demonstrators dancing out on the street and on top of cars.
With few ways for protesters to channel vivid anger and pent up frustration over a system they feel works against them at every level, hip-hop has become an outlet for the young people who reject the old ways of the civil rights movement that they say does not speak to them. Instead, the artists and rappers on the ground every night used their networks to connect with the countless other Fergusons around the country that are struggling to overcome racial and economic tensions.
Young protesters werent looking to their elders for help coping with their pain after unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9. Instead, a generational gap emerged almost immediately after police stormed in to disperse protests and the first canisters of tear gas dropped....
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Thanks for the laugh. First time I laughed all day.
Right, here is your Sig Sauer SA, with three mags, and lubricating oil.
You were using the code for gun, right?
I still remember walking into my teenagers room to tell it was time for lunch and he had some rubbish on the radio that sang “You don’t give a f##k about me and my generation? Without even thinking I kicked the stereo across the room (damn it was my stereo LOL). Then I asked my boy “Who the hell is he singing that to and why are you listening to it?” because if that is what you think about me and all that I do for you then you can go see if you can find someone else who will treat you as good! Young adult males have no brains and are full of angst and semen. They need a bit of shock treatment now and again.
Most of the kids in Fergusson probably do not have fathers to set them straight and keep them from using obscenity as their default language! They are probably in jail or dead.So they direct their angst at the only authority figures that are consistently around.
One of the things that has been pointed out many times by the media is that blacks are a majority in Ferguson. So it seems rather strange that they feel it necessary to protest in the streets when they are the majority.
Kind of makes you scratch your head and go hmmm.....
Yes, that’s the thought experiment. It has nothing to do with race, only behavior.
If they don’t want the stores (loot them), take them away.
If they hate the police (attack them), take them away.
Of course, we throw money at the ghettos in an attempt to reduce the problems (and buy votes), but what if we actually helped those people by teaching them the ways of responsibility and citizenship instead of subsidizing barbarian ways and ignorance?
Wouldn’t that be something?
What a thug brown WAS!! All gone.
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