Posted on 08/26/2014 6:14:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Like most headline news, the Ferguson story will ultimately face an expiration date for ongoing coverage. Although currently center stage, it's only a matter of time before this one will fade into the occasional sound bite -- or referenced along with a couple of words, like Trayvon Martin.
As Michael Brown's family along with thousands of online supporters cried out over his funeral this week, we also must prepare to expand beyond the focus on Brown, Officer Darren Wilson and the riots taking place post August 9th, to the ongoing prevalence of institutionalized racial prejudice and distrust within social platforms like public education, and a "glass-ceiling" workforce also perpetuating racial prejudice beyond the impoverished streets of our nation.
It's time to bridge the dialogue on the killing of Michael Brown with issues more tangible for the public distanced by physical proximity, race, and class from Ferguson, Missouri. We don't downplay the death of Michael Brown; we explore how we are helping our nation internalize the significance of racial prejudice -- white and non-white alike.
18-year-old Michael Brown was black, unarmed and shot six times (twice in the head) by white police officer Darren Wilson on August 9th in Ferguson, Missouri. To date, the prosecutor's office for St. Louis County has yet to file charges against Wilson. A grand jury is reviewing evidence on the case. President Obama has released a statement discussing an internal Federal Investigation into the shooting, also sending Attorney General Eric Holder to provide community reassurances and assess the situation with aims to keep the peace among angered protesters seeking justice for Michael Brown's death.....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Until the stune setting on the phaser is perfected, guns and tasers are going to kill peeps.
Just give them more.
Personally, with a Black president and a Black AG, as well as Black people moving into all sectors and careers based on ability and hard work, I’m sick to death of hearing about all this ‘racial prejudice.’
America is the least racially prejudiced nation on the planet, so if you don’t like it here, go some-*ucking-place else.
Nothing is ever “enough”.
I believe it’s possible that the Left’s pathetic attempt to turn this thug’s justified killing into a new Civil Rights movement and Democrat Get-Out-The-Vote super weapon is going to backfire.
Anyone who works for a living and wants a better future for their children has to at some level be repulsed by the sort of crap Huff Post is dishing out here. Perhaps the votes that get brought out won’t be the ones Obama’s cronies are expecting.
I am concerned that those who work for a living and care about their children’s futures might be in the minority in today’s USA.
Obama has increased the distance between the rich (his peeps) and the poor. Blacks are starting to wake up to this.
There’s a war against black boys who go up to armed men and bash them in the head.
I think this article needs a [BARF alert].
People should stop pandering to these self-absorbed racist fools. It just eggs them on to more ridiculous demands.
Since I am fluent in Huff-Latin I can translate this thought to something more understandable:
"It's time to take the next step in our joint plan with the Democrats to exploit the Michael Brown case in every way possible in order to ensure that the Senate does not change hands this November"
These kinds of articles by this typical clueless lib are endless. Schools, and by extension society, is always failing black kids. Do these people ever wonder if maybe black kids are failing the schools? More programs...more money...same results...black failure.
Opportunity after opportunity after opportunity has been laid before people who will step around it because it's not quick and easy. Getting an education is hard work. Working is hard work. There will be setbacks in life. Deal with it. Stop acting like everyone else is living a cream puff existence. Things are tough all over.
If a bill was passed that gave everyone that didn’t like it here a one-way ticket to anywhere and a million dollars if they renounced their citizenship, how many do you think would actually leave?
Not enough and not the right ones.
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