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Ferguson: In Defense of Rioting (Time Magazine Defends Assault, Looting, and Vandalism)
Time ^ | November 25, 2014 | Darlena Cunha

Posted on 11/27/2014 12:00:33 PM PST by Timber Rattler

The violent protests in Ferguson, Mo., are part of the American experience. Peaceful protesting is a luxury only available to those safely in mainstream culture.

When a police officer shoots a young, unarmed black man in the streets, then does not face indictment, anger in the community is inevitable. It’s what we do with that anger that counts. In such a case, is rioting so wrong?

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; gonetosoon; libidiot; missouri; riot; time
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Darlena Cunha is a Florida-based contributor to The Washington Post and TIME among dozens of other publications.

Waiting for the FBI to pay Ms. Cunha here a visit for inciting and supporting violence....

1 posted on 11/27/2014 12:00:33 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

this is basically a recognition among blacks that post Obama, people are finding it harder and harder to feel sorry for black people.

Ferguson hoopla is an attempt to renew their status as Historically Aggrieved Party.


2 posted on 11/27/2014 12:02:45 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Timber Rattler

Would she say this if conservatives were rioting about something, about some aspect of “mainstream culture” - Obamacare or gay marriage or abortion - to which they objected, and for which they are now in some cases receiving civil and criminal penalties? Hell, no.


3 posted on 11/27/2014 12:04:02 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Timber Rattler
Peaceful protesting is a luxury only available to those safely in mainstream culture.

Yeah, like MLK Jr.

4 posted on 11/27/2014 12:04:05 PM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: jtal

Even the welfare set could at least get out there and wave signs around... these destructive tantrums are getting, like, OLD, bros of color.


5 posted on 11/27/2014 12:05:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Timber Rattler
"Waiting for the FBI to pay Ms. Cunha here a visit for inciting and supporting violence...."

You forget who's at the reigns of the FBI these days. Oh, wait, you know that and you are being sarcastic. The FBI will pay no visit.
6 posted on 11/27/2014 12:05:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Timber Rattler
In such a case, is rioting so wrong?

"I've been searching for a long time for an alternative to riots on the one hand and timid supplication for justice on the other and I think that alternative is found in militant massive non-violence." - Martin Luther King, Jr., March 14, 1968, at Grosse Pointe High School

7 posted on 11/27/2014 12:05:57 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Indeed.


8 posted on 11/27/2014 12:07:24 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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Waiting for the FBI to pay Ms. Cunha here a visit for inciting and supporting violence....

You called?
10 posted on 11/27/2014 12:08:27 PM PST by ari-freedom (Obama is the biggest joke. But I can't laugh.)
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To: chajin

“But if you go talking about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.”


11 posted on 11/27/2014 12:08:58 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Timber Rattler
What a terrible dilemma to learn to write before learning to think.
12 posted on 11/27/2014 12:09:12 PM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: Timber Rattler

So, when a powerful Congresswoman says, “You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” and the people feel marginalized, we should riot?

When a black leader says, “elections have consequences, we won” and white people feel threatened, we should riot?

When the EPA shuts down a coal mine, should people riot?


13 posted on 11/27/2014 12:09:19 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Timber Rattler

Don’t know why people here like to point out what garbage, dieing mags say about anything.


14 posted on 11/27/2014 12:09:33 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: HiTech RedNeck



15 posted on 11/27/2014 12:10:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Clay Moore

Where is the anger over a street thug committing strong armed robbery, and then assaulting a cop and trying to get his gun?
Where is the anger about the thug then charging the cop again to give it another try?

Idolizing this punk is unconscionable.


16 posted on 11/27/2014 12:12:37 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Timber Rattler

https://twitter.com/parentwin

Darlena Cunha
@parentwin
Former TV producer turned freelance journalist, author and mom to twins. Writes for Time Magazine, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The NYT, McSweeneys. #binders


17 posted on 11/27/2014 12:12:43 PM PST by maggief
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To: Timber Rattler

I’m surprised they still bother to publish TIME.


18 posted on 11/27/2014 12:14:01 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Timber Rattler

This from the dingbat who drove her Mercedes Benz to pick up food stamps.
Wash Compost, post everything, 07/08/214


19 posted on 11/27/2014 12:15:00 PM PST by Macoozie (1) Win the Senate 2) Repeal Obamacare 3) Impeach Roberts)
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To: Timber Rattler
When a police officer shoots a young, unarmed black man in the streets...

This little refrain so misdescribes what happened. Yet the dingbats and racial arsonists continue to use it.

20 posted on 11/27/2014 12:15:58 PM PST by FreeReign
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