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Mourners urge black Americans to take action
The Kansas City Star / The Associated Press ^ | August 25, 2014 | Jim Suhr

Posted on 08/25/2014 5:12:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown — recalling him as a "gentle giant," aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college.

But the funeral that unfolded Monday was about much more than the black 18-year-old who lay in the closed casket after being shot to death by a white police officer. The emotional service sought to consecrate Brown's death as another in the long history of the civil rights movement and implored black Americans to change their protest chants into legislation and law.

"Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard, and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this," said Eric Davis, one of Brown's cousins....

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; gentlegiant; lawenforcement; michaelbrown
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To: joshua c

**If Michael Brown hadn’t been shot, wouldn’t he have been headed for jail and not HVAC school for assaulting a cop?**

And assault and robbery at the convenience store.


41 posted on 08/25/2014 6:15:28 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: joshua c
>>...wouldn’t he have been headed for jail and not HVAC school for assaulting a cop?<<

As well as strong arm robbery of a business.

42 posted on 08/25/2014 6:45:10 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ones who “figured it out” will show up to work on time tomorrow and continue to build a future instead of tearing it down like these fools.


43 posted on 08/25/2014 7:11:01 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: BenLurkin

Marry the baby mammas and raise the children they made.

Illegitimacy’s impact includes children who are: ‘Five times more likely to suffer mental troubles’ Triples the level of behavioral and emotional problems among children; Nearly triples the level of teen sexual activity; Doubles the probability a young woman will have children out of wedlock; and, Doubles the probability a boy will become a threat to society, engage in criminal activity, and wind up in jail. Three times more likely to commit suicide 20 to 33 times more likely to suffer child abuse than are the children of low-income married parents

And blacks have a 70-80% illegitimacy rates right now.

When you have two to three generations of broken families, this is the result.


44 posted on 08/25/2014 7:21:07 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; MeganC; Nifster; softwarecreator; stinkerpot65; newnhdad; Paladin2; yldstrk; ...

Asinine videos about the funeral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b2Le-fbZHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j06CZM3WNl8

^This is like a blasphemous parody of a Presidential State Funeral. Motorcyclists standing in for what would normally be a police escort, the coffin in a glass carriage, along with the grandoise speeches extolling the virtues of the deceased.

This is pure racist evil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcr-1AnhOdE


45 posted on 08/25/2014 8:40:25 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

“aspiring rapper”

That comic epitaph always cracks me up. Only aspiring, because they don’t have enough talent to ever become a rapper. Now really, does that even require talent, to gyrate and jabber nonsense?

Yo, black wannbes! Always aspiring, always expiring.


46 posted on 08/25/2014 8:50:23 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: DJ MacWoW

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- Rev Al Sharpton - Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem - killed 8 people

- Rev Jesse “Baby Daddy” Jackson & Jesse “Convicted Convict Number 666” Jackson Junior


47 posted on 08/25/2014 8:58:57 PM PDT by devolve (- "If an idiot puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he is not a damn pansy! -)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When those such as Dr. Ben Carson and Dr. Thomas Sowell are invited to give the eulogies at funerals such as these, rather than the likes of Al Sharpton, we’ll have made real racial progress in this country.....


48 posted on 08/25/2014 9:03:00 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Secret Agent Man

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- Don’t duck you looters - I need to zero in my new scope . . .


49 posted on 08/25/2014 9:04:32 PM PDT by devolve (- "If an idiot puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he is not a damn pansy! -)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good God I love this. These same people, Black or White, would have crossed the Street if they saw “The Gentle Giant” coming their way. What a load of Racist Crappola.

Did they take up a collection to reimburse the Innocent Business Owners who were the Victims of the week long Reparations Rally?


50 posted on 08/25/2014 9:06:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a Living, unless you Vote Democrat.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Or how about a white, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern or Native American?


51 posted on 08/25/2014 9:07:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, that’s really looking eons ahead.....


52 posted on 08/25/2014 9:09:38 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Kickass Conservative

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- check out your Goofer & Attorney General : http://www.sq.4mg.com/IQgap.htm

(do not forget to deduct 7.4% from their IQ for permanently burning out their brains on marijuana)


53 posted on 08/25/2014 9:34:16 PM PDT by devolve (- "If an idiot puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he is not a damn pansy! -)
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To: bikerman

No one contemplates how many crimes won’t happen because MB isn’t on the streets any more. Good riddance is right.


54 posted on 08/25/2014 11:21:05 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: VanDeKoik

Gonna Get Me a Shotgun and Kill All the Whiteys I See...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBw8jS3sMw


55 posted on 08/25/2014 11:27:42 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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