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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Whatever gets the most coverage and bang for the quarter. I don’t have bucks either. I am a poor, white, disabled, retired military guy.
As am I.
She’s a LESBIAN???? Who would EVER have guessed?! I tell you, I’m STUNNED!!! /s;)
AND the citizens of the country want justice for the shop owners, citizens subjected to looting, police officers and the late Mr. Brown. We want justice for ALL - NOT just members of the 'black community'.
Reminds me, when Obama talks about ' the community' he's really talking about the 'black community'. I want justice from THAT too. Obama and the MSM need to understand there are many communities - some are white. Some are Hispanic. Some are mixed. But they're NOT all Black. They need to STOP using the term 'community' to mean black neighborhoods. That's insulting.
“I hate to say it, but I’m really starting to think that we cannot live with these people (the left, welfare moochers, illegals, trouble-makers, etc.) and that we need a divorce or something.”
Actually, if the left doesn’t back down, and continues on the path they’ve taken to destroy this country, the “divorce” is going to cost millions of lives.
Let me be Frank ....
I can't hope to try and answer your question, I haven't figured out yet how two women can have a baby.
Sally Kohn is one of the leading progressive voices in America. She is currently a CNN contributor and columnist for the Daily Beast. Sally was previously a Fox News contributor, the motivation for her widely-seen TED talk, as well as a regular guest on MSNBC. Sally’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Magazine, More Magazine, Reuters, USA Today, Salon, Politico, Time and many other outlets. Her work has been highlighted by outlets from the New York Times to the Colbert Report to the National Review, and Sally is ranked by Mediaite as one of the top 100 most influential television pundits in America.
If she put on a pair of black rimmed glasses she’d look like Madcow’s twin.
She truly a disgusting lib and she’s a “FOX contributor “.
Looks like a young Hugh Grant.
Ah crap. Another marxist bullshiter. And at CNN too.
Rename her “Sally Class Warfare Conn-Artist”. More appropriate and more accurate.
They want an advantage. They want to rule, rob & bend those they despise to their will.
That is where Holder, Obama and the gays and the feminists and the illegals want to take us if we let them.
Or men.
The one that I absolutely cannot stand though, and whose appearance will cause an immediate change of channel or shut down for me is the racis "Shamu" Green.
Oh, her. She’s what the little Dutch boy put his finger in.
You’ve nailed it! She DOES closely resemble Oscar Wilde! Too much of a coincidence, given Wilde’s proclivities.
She’s a phony from her toenails to the tips of her hair and everything in between...
I don’t feel awful about myself at all, and the more they try to push the propaganda, the less awful I feel. I feel pretty good, in fact I feel good enough to never again allow myself to be cowed by the “rayciss” label.
I don’t think it’s so sad, who decided that “diversity” was a worthy goal in and of itself anyway? No matter what other values-—time-tested and proven good values-—are destroyed to achieve this overriding concern with “diversity”?
That reminds me of the stupid, moronic, idiotic person (some officer) who dismissed the Fort Hood shootings and went on declare that diversity was more important than the safety and security of our military personnel (and the rest of the country, by extension).
What made “diversity” (and of skin tone, not thought or any other non-superficial value) the most important goal in our public life?
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