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The real looting of Ferguson: its black citizens never had a chance to get by
The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 19, 2014 | Steven W. Thrasher

Posted on 08/19/2014 4:38:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The National Guard rolled in to protect a status quo. But racism set a status quo of inequality long before Michael Brown died.

The National Guard will essentially protect the legal looting of black people – much as it was protected when Missouri became the last slave state admitted to the union.

The symptoms of structural racism stain America everywhere, but its execution is particularly perverse in places like Ferguson. It’s not just that black drivers are stopped more often for alleged crimes than white drivers, despite the Missouri attorney general’s report that white people break the law more often. It’s not that Ferguson’s police force is 94% white in a town that’s two-thirds black. It’s not even, as Jeff Smith wrote in Monday’s New York Times, that black people–many unemployed– “do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites” by way of those stops and the subsequent fines.

The real perversion of justice by way of modern American racism is that black people in Ferguson – like black people in the greater St Louis metropolitan area and nationally–are marginalized economically and physically from day one. That is the real looting of Ferguson.

We are consistently twice as likely to be unemployed – and in and near St Louis, “47 percent of the metro area’s African-American men between ages 16 and 24 are unemployed”. Our men are more likely to be convicted and our women are more likely to be evicted. We are more likely to be victims of predatory loans. Our children are twice as likely to have asthma (even before you teargas them). Our babies are twice as likely to die before the age of one–and their mothers are three or four times more likely to die as a result of bearing them....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: economy; ferguson; missouri; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush’s fault I suppose.


21 posted on 08/19/2014 5:27:08 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Procyon

The 7 to 10 trillion dollars spent on the “great society” hasn’t turned out to be a very wise investment.


22 posted on 08/19/2014 5:29:57 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I'd give a weeks pay to have cracka hater Steven Thrasher spend one day in Ferguson MO.
23 posted on 08/19/2014 5:31:20 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: econjack

I wonder if that encounter is on video?


24 posted on 08/19/2014 5:31:40 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: JudyinCanada
That's a wonderful thought.

But it won't sit well with those advocates of victimhood.

25 posted on 08/19/2014 5:33:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one mentions people who goof off throughout years of free education, refuse to learn anything in the way of job skills, but are too good to do the jobs they qualify for.


26 posted on 08/19/2014 5:39:55 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
victims of predatory loans

keep your predatory loan protection with you always......just say no. But, it's predatory, so you really can't stop it.

27 posted on 08/19/2014 5:45:32 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: econjack

“... and show some self-discipline and initiative on solving their problem themselves, perhaps starting with lowering a 72% illegitimacy rate.”

And a nearly 50% illiteracy rate, higher yet if you only count black males.

When a culture accepts that, even knowing that it makes them unemployable, it’s a culture problem that only they can fix.

You can’t buy an education, you can pay for one but that has already been done. You can’t buy jobs for the illiterate.

The only thing left that society can do to help them is to do nothing for them. Work or starve, change your culture or you will shiver in the dark, cold and hungry.


28 posted on 08/19/2014 5:52:56 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: beef

Pull the police and national Guard out, establish a perimeter around Ferguson, and let them run their city the way they see fit

...my father, who disliked blacks since some childhood incidents, always said ‘give them their own state’...I thought that was nonsense, but not any more...

...what state shall we give them to run into the ground, and let them clean up themselves? My father said Mississippi, his WWII army maneuvers hellhole, but I don’t know...maybe just a terrritory, rather than a state...at any rate, it is clear that the races mixing and living in relative harmony just ain’t going to happen...


29 posted on 08/19/2014 5:55:47 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe this racist can write some drivel about how many officers are killed by black youts per year? Uses the term execution to incite more violence.

Pray America wakes up


30 posted on 08/19/2014 5:59:07 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This town, depending on where you are getting your numbers, is between 52 and 64% black.

Fox News this morning interviewed their former Mayor who was white.

Can’t be too racist of the majority voted for him. Either that or most won’t get off the couch to go vote.


31 posted on 08/19/2014 6:01:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s Larry Elder’s take on one liberal lie... I wish someone would send Elder’s this drivil by Steven W. Thrasher

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/beyond_racebaiting_in_ferguson.html

“I hear people talk about how the Ferguson Police Department does not represent the city. So what? Are you saying that because the city has a certain racial composition you therefore can’t represent the people? If that’s the argument, the logical extension is Obama should never be president because black people are just thirteen percent of the country. That’s ridiculous...”

And Jason Riley:

“The real difficulty is not getting shot by other black people if you are a young black man in these neighborhoods…Cops are not the problem. Cops are not producing these black bodies in the morgues every week-end in Chicago, New York and Detroit and so forth.”


32 posted on 08/19/2014 6:03:10 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I saw someone the other day post “Uyghur, please!”

Seriously, do they NEVER examine their culture to see why it promotes an 80% bastardity rate, 50% of the violent crimes with 12% of the population, and absolutely no work ethic?


33 posted on 08/19/2014 6:06:33 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: jocon307

“...the Missouri attorney general’s report that white people break the law more often.”

I’m a white person and have been recently convicted twice for breaking the law. Talking on a cell phone while driving in California. The problem with statistical data is that garbage in gives you garbage out.


34 posted on 08/19/2014 6:09:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama has proven he has no concept of how to handle the situation, because in fact he refuses to recognize the real problem.

The price of creating a dependent class is the destruction of family and community.

This Godless culture has no sense of right or wrong.

Until God is back in our lives and Fathers are back in their homes and the private sector is free to create real jobs, there is no environment for meaningful education and self-sufficiency.


35 posted on 08/19/2014 6:11:57 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Missouri became the last slave state admitted to the union ... in 1821.

Seems this author's pretty sketchy on his history. I can name him Arkansas (1836), Texas, and Florida (both 1845).
36 posted on 08/19/2014 6:12:53 AM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we’ll go all Somalia on them ....


37 posted on 08/19/2014 6:32:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Procyon

LBJ and the democraps.


38 posted on 08/19/2014 6:33:28 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Altura Ct.

They are angry that Muslims are competing for that spot and are trying to get back at #1.


39 posted on 08/19/2014 6:34:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: econjack

That out on YouTube somewhere?

If not, it should be.


40 posted on 08/19/2014 6:46:38 AM PDT by tanknetter
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