Amy Goodman: The ghost of Dred Scott haunts the streets of Ferguson (She doesn't disappoint)

The Monterey Herald ^ | August 22, 2014 | Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

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Comments?

[BenLurkin]

Criminal behavior is not a civil right.

[Celtic Conservative]

What a load of bollocks.

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[Tzimisce]

So there you have it: Michael Brown was shot because slavery is still legal.

[cripplecreek]

Yet the mayor is white. The city council is overwhelmingly white, as is the school board.

And who is at fault for that?

[polymuser]

The Koolaid is strong in these two.

[reg45]

Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Catholic Democrat from Maryland, kind of like Nanzi Pelosi.

[NorthMountain]

These individuals neglected to mention riots, arson, and looting.

Funny, that ...

[spodefly]

It took TWO people to write that ...

[Salvavida]

So Mike Brown wasn't a U.S. citizen? What was the point of this drivel?

[bray]

Don’t suppose there is any educational disparity to explain the White/Black mix.

Pray America wakes up

[Reddy]

I was driving home tonight and picked up some radio station-maybe Chicago, the guy was named Nathan and he and his callers are black. It was like listening to facts from some other, unrelated case. They claimed Brown paid for his cigars, had his hands up (despite autopsy reports indicating that could not happen) and otherwise was an innocent bystander in the whole event.

It was seriously disturbing that they actually believe the cop killed Brown because he hates black before all the evidence is available.

[Altura Ct.]

Oh boo hoo...

[NonValueAdded]

"Better call Saul Amy"

[UCANSEE2]

” an unarmed African-American teenager in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. “

I figured out why the ‘media’ keeps putting the world ‘unarmed’ in the sentence.

Because... that is what made him unique.

[arthurus]

If it’s bleeding it’s not a corpse, not yet.

[Ditto]

The mayor is a Democrat and the city council are Democrats.

Oh, BTW, Roger Taney who wrote the Dred Scott decision and the majority of the court who concurred in that decision were also a Democrats.

I can easily see the connection.

The Democrat Party... proudly playing the race card for 160 years.(TM)

[Dr. Sivana]

Professor john a. powell (who writes his name in lower-case letters) teaches courses on Dred Scott.

Gee, I thought that privilege was reserved for e. e. cummings and various and sundry lesbian writers.

[UCANSEE2]

Once the ‘blacks’ have ‘whites’ as slaves, who are the ‘mexicanos’ going to use as slaves ?

It’s unfair, and racist. We’re going to have to find another ‘underclass’ group or there will be protests and lawsuits.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s his new nickname instead of “Gentle Giant” or “Big Mike.” Now he’s “Unarmed Teen.”