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On race, America has far to go. Ferguson won't be the last flash point
The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 16, 2014 | Farai Chideya

Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.

I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.

I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)

America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.

I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: crime; ferguson; raceriots; racism; ursulathevk; zot
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To: DuncanWaring
It’s looking like a lot more than just the Manger Dawgs were tired of him.

No joke. It appears that the ranks of unofficial Manger Dawgs are a lot bigger than the official list.

WOOF!

261 posted on 08/19/2014 7:36:44 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: bobby.223; wku man
Thanks but I will give the credit to wkuman

He's been a tireless defender of our beloved country, hasn't he? The man's got a helluva sharp tongue, to boot!

Remind me to never get on his bad side .. LOL

262 posted on 08/19/2014 7:40:11 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Windy, my FRiend, you could never be on my bad side. But I'm glad to be fighting for our nation side by side with you, brother Dawg.

As far as a sharp tongue is concerned, it's nothing compared to many of my ex-girlfriends...especially the redheads! I have a weakness for them though, so maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

263 posted on 08/19/2014 10:10:29 PM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: eartick
Maybe he spilled red wine on it and his "washing machine" threw it away.

Anyway, I expect Chicken Man will be back soon, with a new screen name, and the same low-T level that made him turn cowardly a** and desert our great nation. When he does, we Dawgs will be there, ready to protect our homes, like good guard dogs do.

Good fightin' at your side, brother Dawg!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

264 posted on 08/19/2014 10:17:26 PM PDT by wku man ("Weenie in a Hybrid" by 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdLDSB_6gY)
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To: AlexW; 50mm; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952; Darksheare; TheOldLady; Lady Jag; Chode; shibumi; ...
Folks, I make no apologies for this final tombstone-style PING to an ancient thread, but I was only just TODAY alerted to its existence (H/T to our FRiend, NHale!)...

The long FR nightmare is over. The man, the waste, the legend, AlexW, at long last got his well-deserved final ride of the lightning from our hallowed forum.

So, with a little heavy graphics kick in the buttocks, let's once again dance on the ashes with a hearty

And of course, what would a ZOT thread be without a visit from Ursula the Viking Kitten?

VERILY, EVEN SVORTALF WOULD NOT DINE UPON YOUR FETID AND FESTERING CARCASS, YEA, EVEN IF MUCH CURRY WAS USED TO MASK YOUR SCENT!

CARE TO WAGER, SISTER?

265 posted on 10/05/2014 8:02:12 PM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Old Sarge

What did AlexW do that got the lightening called down?


266 posted on 10/05/2014 8:03:52 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Back on Post #54 - outed himself once and for all, and Freeper One bade him farewell.


267 posted on 10/05/2014 8:05:12 PM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: Old Sarge

Southern Philippines has a lot of Muslims and it is not like their aren’t non-whites around


268 posted on 10/05/2014 8:22:10 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Old Sarge

A long time coming.


269 posted on 10/05/2014 11:04:28 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Old Sarge
YAY! 😆

270 posted on 10/06/2014 5:10:41 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...Pres. E'Bola/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: skinkinthegrass
101 anti-black comments couched in political rhetoric

1 comment within that 101 that stated there was an enjoyable lack of blacks in a geophysical locale

1 comment calling for the extermination of that previous 1 commenter

158 partiers exhibiting extreme racism against a racist remarker within a racist thread

brilliant

271 posted on 02/04/2015 11:11:43 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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