Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America

The Root ^ | October 15, 2014 | Peniel E. Joseph

[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)

[jsanders2001]

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

[sportutegrl]

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.

[AppyPappy]

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

[driftless2]

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.

[SwankyC]

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

[Bigg Red]

Peneil?

[2ndDivisionVet]

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

[IronJack]

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.

[zzwhale]

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

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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

[cherry]

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

[NorthMountain]

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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Perfect. :)

[Bigg Red]

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