Posted on 08/23/2014 1:46:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When does a moment become a movement?
Events such as the killing of unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., can provide the moral shock that political movements need to build their ranks and bring attention to a community’s afflictions. They can be like the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 or the beating death of Matthew Shepard in 1998 — transformative episodes that remake perceptions and force a society to abandon abhorrent practices.
Or they can be like the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers: a horrific moment that failed to create a sustained push for broader, nationwide reforms of policing practices.
For black Americans, the outrage against the police that we’re seeing in Ferguson has appeared in roughly 10-year intervals — from the 1979 beating death of Arthur McDuffie by police, which sparked protest and violence in Miami; to the attack on King, which led to more than 50 deaths and several days of unrest in Los Angeles; to the 2001 shooting death of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati, which also erupted in protest and rioting and produced a costly economic boycott against the city.
So perhaps America was due for another bout of unrest. But will Ferguson recede in the coming days and weeks, becoming the scene of just another tragic slaying that didn’t lead to meaningful change in police conduct toward black or brown communities? Will history remember Michael Brown less like Emmett Till and more like Rodney King?
I’m optimistic that Ferguson can lead to real change. The church rallies, street demonstrations, marches, looting and targeted violence against police are familiar responses. But there are four key differences in what is unfolding in Ferguson: first, the cumulative effect of recent cases of police misconduct against black people across the nation....
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Fredrick Harris is a professor of political science and the director of the Center on African American Politics and Society at Columbia University. He is the author of “The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics.”
In a sane world, Ferguson would be nothing more than horse sh*t and yet another example of phony Black racialist whining.
Another example of phony Black racialist whining produced, promoted, promulgated, propagated, and perpetuated by a complicit leftist media.
Well....it’s time to let thugs and idiots take over...and make laws...oh....wait...
Anybody that goes around calling himself “Professor” is an insecure little dickweed.
I am pretty tired of it.
This from the Washington *bleep*.
Thank you great one.
To utter the name of Till with St. Brown or St. Trayvon is a disgrace. Fereson will be qn embarassment.
Yes, a bowel movement.
“Events such as the killing of unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., can provide the moral shock that political movements need to build their ranks and bring attention to a community’s afflictions.”
He forgot to put killing of unarmed... by a “white man” in his hateful spew. That’s what he is trying to stir up. Otherwise, he could write a piece every day about the killing of unarmed men, women, and children in Chicago, Detroit, etc.... Jackass Harris just trying to stir up a race war plain and simple.
Notice that he’s not getting the love over there in the comments section?
Clueless, absolutely clueless. I would not spend tens of thousands of dollars to send my child to Columbia to take courses taught by that buffoon. I’m so tired of the black victim theory peddling by these so-called, educated elites like Fredrick Harris. Glad to see that even on the Washington Post the comments were hardly favorable to the “learned” Professor Harris. This is what the Ivy League is hiring? Why should I be shocked since higher education is a bastion filled with leftist thinking and nonsense.
Extortionists running with the race card against the guilty white folk made guilty by the progressive liberal(commie)agenda driven scumedia and thier propaganda bombardment and racial firestarting since the 60’s
Rahm Emanuel
Free stuff does not make revolutions, merely big robberies.
Just what is Ferguson and its attempted evolution to be a righteous revolution? Answer: A glorified lynch mob bent on subjecting due process to its will , aided by an MSM collective of carrion consuming, fabricated-news apes.
Brown was a casualty of crime, and this is a precursor to civil war and national lynching/looting.Obama and Holder mean to secure that destiny.
Thank you to all those who voted for Obama the Usurper. The Nobel Peace Prize winner without a dinner.He is a snake that is fulfilling our Free Republic prophecy that he would bring death and genocide to millons of human beings. This was predicted after we observed his conduct in Kenya in 2006/2007, when he counselled Odinga of the radical Islamist Orange party to creat mayhem and genocide through protesting the 2007 Kenyan election results. The result was that thousands died, including 70 old men, women and children in an incinerated church, after the Orange party terrorists locked every door and window, and applied the torch.Obama is nothing but a curse on the world, a horrible blight on the plant of American liberty.
We saw the future writing of history on the fascist wall in 2007, but no statement we could make would make any difference to a nation traduced by emotional inducement , and a disguised radical evangelistic Obama.
NOW we are saddled with an isolated, disconnected, treasonous so called president, who will destroy our nation rather than compromise his leftist principles to comply with the Constitution he swore to defend.He rejects his own Secretary of Defence and those who would defend our nation.
The entire free world and its innocent inhabitants will suffer horribly through starvation and disease. Sons and daughters will go to war and die for several generations, and nuclear warfare is a distinct probability rather than a remote possibility, as it was at the outset of the term of President Obama, the Reamer/Dreamer.
May Obama and every one of his running dogs rot in hell.Cursing the day he was born and his first breath will become common fodder to a nation that would at one time have deserved much better, but fell asleep at the switch and bought the created pap and emotional imagery fabricated by the left in America ( Zowie!...swoon....Americas FIRST BLACK president, as if his race would wash away any imperfections that dare manifest as they already had done in his true historical record, skillfully obscured.). America , you have been had.
All America can do now is bend over and take it right up the collective arse.And vote for another leftist in 2016 too? And watch the complete fall of a once great nation as it decends into Ferguson, Missouri style discivilization, brought about by hooting street apes with their pants down below their butts, championed by a nutter, cross eyed, caucasian phobic, radical Attorney General, Eric Holder.We have seen the mirror of America’s future, and it is disaster writ large.
Everyone who has the means should get out of a sinking nation while they can and if not, then move out of the cities and urban areas into the wide open rural spaces of America.Buy a rifle and as much ammo as you can to protect your property and loved ones. Much worse is yet to come as Obama unleashes the dogs of demographic ( Ferguson/Illegal Aliens) and conventional( ISIS) warfare on a still unsuspecting nation that voted to suffer its own treason. SHAME ON YOU!
Where are their priorities?
Anyone who has made the choices and exerted the effort to become successful, then who claims to empathize with the low-lifes, is a charlatan. Ain't if ironic how many of those who would incite violence by the downtrodden have no idea of what it took for them to become successful themselves, else they would preach it as a solution instead of inciting them to brutality.
Yes. We are all racists. We’re so racist, we’d never let a black man become a well paid (no doubt), racialist nonsense spewing professor of black grievance studies.
I’d like to see another movement....a movement that takes people like Prof. Harris and the people who support him out of the U.S. I’m sure there are plenty of countries around the world who’d be eager to take in Harris and his supporters. No more associating with nasty, white racists in America. Paradise elsewhere. How about it Prof. Harris? Leave now.
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