On race, America has far to go. Ferguson won't be the last flash point

The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 16, 2014 | Farai Chideya

[2ndDivisionVet]

The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.

I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.

I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)

America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.

I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....

[CodeToad]

America has gone far enough!

“Minorities” need to get with the program and stop seeing white people as their only paycheck option.

I don’t see much pride in Black Pride when the only thing blacks seem to do is hold their hand out for whites to put something in it.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There are thugs and slackers in all American cultures and ethnic groups. Ferguson far exceeds it’s quota.

[Altura Ct.]

Good point

[Biggirl]

Would it surprise anyone that the condeming evidence is going to come out from that store security video that showed that the person who was shot that caused all the rioting was robbing that store?

This will become an open and shut case.

[dfwgator]

They still want to be slaves....they just don’t want to do the work.

But they are slaves just the same.

[NorthMountain]

Low information, low intelligence, low motivation individuals like Farai Chideya try to wrap themselves in them mantle of victimhood precisely because "victims" bear no responsibility.

BTW, what the heck is a "Farai Chideya"?

"Chideya" sounds like the name of an IJN destroyer or light cruiser ...

[fatnotlazy]

She's too young to know what things were like back in the day when black people had few educational and job opportunities, when black people had to use separate waiting rooms at train or bus stations, separate drinking fountains and often couldn't use public restrooms. Blacks were systematically barred from owning a home or renting in predominantly white neighborhoods. A black man could be lynched for just looking directly at a white woman. We had come quite far from the old days.

Then Obama and his accomplices came along. The man hailed as the great unifier of the races has split them apart. Of course, this division is intentional. Obama and those like him feel that everything wrong in their lives is the result of those evil rich white folks and they are deliberately seeking their revenge against white people for all grievances, real or imagined.

[Jay Redhawk]

Modern segregation and the lack of jobs for blacks is far more a result of black behavior than anything else. The 30 percent of Ferguson residents that are white will soon be leaving, and what will be left are run down properties, closed businesses, and black depravity. I might also add that blacks who are worth their salt will be getting the hell out of there to.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Fat ignorant low IQ Blacks all seem to have an opinion on America and Whitey.....they want them both dead it seems too....

[tcrlaf]

“As long as there is a profit and Democrat power motive behind race baiting, it will continue to go on.”

There... Fixed it!

[Enterprise]

Here is an Enterprise official doomsday prediction:

The day will come when things are so terrible in this country that Farai Chideya will wish for the good days when a white cop shot a black man - and people actually cared!

[boycott]

Ferguson won’t be the last flash point

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Does she think this scares us? I am not intimidated.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

When folks like this say “we have so far to go on race”....they do not mean in a positive direction.

[DJ MacWoW]

Hypocrisy Is:
Claiming To Be Lawfully Elected Twice
In A Country You Deem To Be
The Most Racist In The World

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[dfwgator]

[hosepipe]

All most ALL blacks killed by violent means are killed by other blacks..

NON blacks kill very few blacks..

[driftless2]

If America could some how get rid of the Black Underclass, things in this country would be 1000% improved. The BU is a galaxy-sized drain on the country in terms of tax-payer money paid out towards welfare, crime prevention, and employing blacks in positions where they are incompetent. Few blacks, like this author, understand this.

[Boogieman]

"But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen a violent criminal who assaulted a police officer after committing a robbery in Ferguson" Fixed it.

[dfwgator]

Should’ve picked our own damn cotton.

[VanDeKoik]

“Missouri spring”?

Is this idiot serious???