Posted on 08/18/2014 4:16:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Editor's note: Sally Kohn is a progressive activist, columnist and television commentator. Follow her on Twitter @sallykohn. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
The protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, want justice for the unarmed black teenager shot and killed there by a police officer. But the protests also reflect broader patterns of racial injustice across the country, from chronic police violence and abuse against black men to the persistent economic and social exclusion of communities of color.
In one sense, the unrest in Ferguson might be calmed if the government would simply release all the details of Michael Brown's death, bring charges against Officer Darren Wilson if appropriate and hold accountable those officials who unleashed a military-style assault on protesting citizens.
Yet in another sense, the simmering anger that has bubbled over in Ferguson will never go away as long as the ugly conditions of racial bias in America go unaddressed.
On August 9, a police officer in Ferguson shot and killed Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old boy.
Just days earlier, on August 5, police in Beavercreek, Ohio, shot and killed John Crawford, a 22-year-old black father of two who was holding an air rifle inside a Walmart. On July 17, police choked and killed Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black father of six on Staten Island, New York, in what has now been ruled a homicide.
These killings occurred against the backdrop of a long history of black men being suspiciously, recklessly, wantonly killed by police. This is in addition to everyday harassment by police to which young black men have become sadly accustomed. In New York in 2011, 25% of the NYPD's stop and frisks targeted young black men, who make up less than 2% of the city's overall population....
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He sure is...
I think Fox test-hired him once but the visuals were so bad they immediately yanked him off the air.
“black 18-year-old boy”
Wow. She’s one racist cracker, isn’t she.
Sally received a joint degree in law and public administration from New York University and was a Root Tilden public service scholar at the New York University School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University in D.C. Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Sally now resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Sarah Hansen and their daughter Willa.
The cops should, of course, have given equal time to stopping and searching elderly Jewish women using a walker.
I would think that if I were a young black man, I'd blame any harassment I got from the cops on other young black men giving them excellent reason to be suspicious of my (our) demographic.
Possibly I wouldn't, but to my mind that's a much more logical target for anger.
To go with some actual facts, over 70% of violent crime in NYC is by black people, who are stop and frisked 53% of the time. So they're actually being under-stopped.<
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/commissioner-kelly-defends-stop-and-frisk-targeting-african-americans-article-1.1332840
BTW wideawake, I can assure you I am not Sally the progressive activist.
But once again, thanks for that bit of humor.
“On August 9, a police officer in Ferguson shot and killed Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old boy.”
Boy huh, When i was 18 I was in Vietnam. A boy I was not...
“Sally Kohn is a progressive activist.”
Normally I’d be polite toward a lady, but this thing is no lady. Therefore, stick it up your hole where the sun don’t shine, you beeotch.
Downright gorgeous.
OK, we should stop now...
Got it, Sally.
She’s not willing to marry the mother of her child? Is the mother not jewish?
And I was on the Korean DMZ. Back home and there, as an 18 year old, I could vote, smoke, marry without permission, sign a binding contract and drink alcohol freely.
What I see watching a little of CNN is race baiting at it’s worst.
Oh, wait a minute, Sally. Did you really just call a black man a “boy”? Tsk tsk.
Yeah, I knew all that, but thanks for letting the other readers know.
I have been looking at a new 12 gage shotgun. Only have to wonder which shot to put in it when I buy it. Need the most coverage when I pump and shoot.
You're killing me fastasleep...Stop it...
The ugly racial bias is fr liberals like Sally.
I guess she is the man in that abomination of an arrangement.
I like Mossbergs, but then again, I’m poor.
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