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Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America
The Root ^ | October 15, 2014 | Peniel E. Joseph

Posted on 10/15/2014 10:35:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There’s a social-justice movement taking hold across the nation. Michael Brown’s death, which turned Ferguson, Mo., into a battleground this past summer, has helped catalyze a larger struggle for racial and economic justice in America.

And St. Louis, where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer, has witnessed roiling street demonstrations that recall the heyday of the civil rights and black power eras. Taking a page straight from the civil rights era, activists launched a “weekend of resistance” that featured civil disobedience, direct action protests, tense standoffs with police and arrests.

The issues raised—ending police brutality, raising the minimum wage, transforming race relations—attracted a cross-generational group of activists. Dozens of protesters stood outside Busch Stadium and reminded baseball fans of the political stakes that dwarfed the outcome of a Major League Baseball playoff game. “This is not a happy time,” one demonstrator told the New York Times. “They come here and watch a baseball game while we die; we go out and get pepper sprayed and hit with tear gas for peaceful protesting.”(continued)

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; lawenforcement; michaelbrown; missouri; rabblerousers; raceriots; riots; trayvons
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To: Dr. Thorne

Yep. The looters and racebaiters aren’t getting any repect except from their own kind.


41 posted on 10/15/2014 11:28:08 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Notice how many people in that photo are wearing Palestinian Keffiyeh scarfs? What does that tell us?

Pizza Hut called. They want their tablecloths back.

42 posted on 10/15/2014 11:42:41 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: jsanders2001

Any way you look at it, someone is going to lose a beauty shop.
I only care about the entertainment value. Riots are good TV


43 posted on 10/15/2014 11:46:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: IronJack
I wonder what goes on in the minds of most average Dems when they see and hear the constant whining and complaining of the perpetually aggrieved. I know many of my old Dem friends had/have little or no sympathy for these people.

If nothing changes, fifty years from now the same people will screaming and whining about the need for "social justice" and "white racism" still keeping black people down. I read comments on lib forums by self-identified blacks who really believe they're still living in a horrible, racist society that is stacked against them. This despite fifty years of AA, set asides, countless gov. giveaways, and a black president. I see no good end to this business. At some point, something has to burst.

44 posted on 10/15/2014 11:48:54 AM PDT by driftless2
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Anyone else notice that catholic priest that Cornell has his arm around? Who is he?

Communist Jim Wallis. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1833

45 posted on 10/15/2014 12:09:02 PM PDT by SwankyC (Democrats and Republicans agree, govt coercion is OK if it fits your idea of whats OK)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Peneil?


46 posted on 10/15/2014 12:45:08 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

“Are you aware of the penal codes in this state?” ~Obscure Kentucky Fried Movie reference.


47 posted on 10/15/2014 12:47:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: driftless2

The “victims” will continue to push as long as it works. The way to stop it is to stop letting it work.

Draw the line. Stop honoring this shakedown with success. Tell these parasites that you’re done proposing solutions and you’re done paying for programs that, by their own admission, don’t work.

Live in squalor. Starve. Die on the street if that’s what you choose to do. But I’m not going to take any more responsibility for your lives than you do. We’ve spent the last half a century opening doors. Damned if I’m going to drag you through them.


48 posted on 10/15/2014 1:01:23 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. get an education
2. get a job
3. obey the law


a good start for their “community”

81% of the stupid blacks voted 2x for obama.... live with the economic results... there is a price for stupidity


49 posted on 10/15/2014 2:33:57 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

their idea of fairness is I work, they collect...its the African way....


50 posted on 10/15/2014 2:46:13 PM PDT by cherry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a generic marxist protest. It’s planned, organized, fomented, and controlled by professional marxist agitators who are NOT from Missouri.

I’ve been saying this for weeks.


51 posted on 10/15/2014 2:47:40 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: jsanders2001

Perfect. :)


52 posted on 10/15/2014 3:36:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Movie references are lost on me, as are references to TV shows.


53 posted on 10/15/2014 4:53:32 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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