Good luck with that.
Posted on 08/27/2014 2:45:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The town is trying to figure out how to turn a tragic moment into a lasting movement.
The funeral was choreographed to the smallest detail, from the celebrities sprinkled through the church to the Cardinals cap laid atop the black-and-gold casket. A massive crowd filed past the television cameras and into the jam-packed sanctuary or the overflow rooms live-streaming the service. The ceremony was billed as a celebration of Brown’s life, which ended Aug. 9 in a hail of bullets fired by a white policeman, and the crowd heard upbeat gospel music, stirring sermons and a eulogy from the Rev. Al Sharpton. But it was also an opportunity to send a message to his mourners. “We are required,” Sharpton told them in his peroration, “to leave here today and change things.”
For the residents of Ferguson, Mo., Brown’s funeral on Monday closed one chapter and opened a new period of uncertainty. The worst of the violence appears over, and the protests are beginning to subside. Soon the television cameras will get packed up, leaving a town that has become the latest shorthand for America’s racial divide to figure out how to translate the energy, intensity and anger of the past two weeks into concrete change.
The problem is that nobody is quite sure how to do it — or what that change would even look like. The shooting of an unarmed, 18-year-old black man at the hands of a white Ferguson policeman opened all sorts of wounds that have festered for generations. Of the thousands who have tromped up and down West Florissant Avenue since Brown’s death, there are nearly as many diagnoses about what Ferguson needs now.
To some, the answer is erasing the pattern of improper police behavior that has plagued this St. Louis suburb....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
They welcomed the out of state, out of “work” Occutards. Let them deal with their decision. Someone paid good money to send the rent-a-mob there.
They could mow lawns for a living. There is a hispanic man here who mows lawns and he charges $40 for a typical small lawn. He told me he mows 24 per day, 6 days a week. Add that up. He is making a great living! he has a HUGE mower and can do my yard in 15-20 min. Does a great job. Seems like the hispanics are the entrepreneurs of today. He has some simple business cards printed up so if you ask him if he can mow your lawn, he can write down his price on the card and hand it to you. His overhead is almost zero. Smart guy! Fluent in English, too.
you said “socialism is the rule moving forward”
So true.
Both partiesa are marching us toward Socialism, the democrats will just get us there faster.
Socialism = Communism = Fascism = Nazism
Just the opposite. Where ever a police department covers a large area or several entities, the law abiding locations suffer. If Ferguson has a problem with its police department, they should deal with their problem. If they don't have enough black police, why not? They should be recruiting from inside the community. Just don't take police protection from law abiding communities to babysit them while their thugs rob stores, assault people half their size, resist police and then make a global issue out of not wanting law enforcement.
Larger government further away from the population NEVER works to the benefit of the citizenry.
That is exactly what I said to my husband yesterday! We graduated from college 1969 and moved to Clute Texas. He became a chemical engineer at Dow Chemical in Freeport. We came here from Okla State U. He was fortunate, his folks paid for his college. I paid for mine with bank loans (couldn’t get student loans, I tried) and working summers in a hot factory, Liberty Glass, in Sapulpa Ok. No AC in there where it was 110 in the factory and 106 outdoors in the summers. Sure gave me huge incentive to finish college and move and find a job some place else. Never crossed my mind to loot, protest, steal, riot! I was too busy working and finishing school.
But these kids in Mo and across USA don’t even bother to finish H.S.! Colleges are having to had REMEDIAL MATH, SCIENCE, ENGLISH etc for the kids who do attend college.
When our kids were in school all the kids were pretty much over-achievers. You had to be in the top 10% to be guaranteed entry into UT and T-A&M.
Now it is dumbell math in too many places.
FOR SURE
Well yeah, there’s that also!
Maybe they could hire former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry as a consultant on how to run a city, you know, in keeping with their highest traditions of ethical and moral behavior.
Good luck with that.
He's SUCH a model civil servant.(sarc)
I don't understand stubbornly holding to a proven blueprint for failure and then demanding the rest of the world to support you in your campaign to self-destruct!!!
Stacking the deck AGAINST your OWN children is beyond my understanding!!
I don’t understand stubbornly holding to a proven blueprint for failure and then demanding the rest of the world to support you in your campaign to self-destruct!!!
Stacking the deck AGAINST your OWN children is beyond my understanding!!
OOOPS-Meant that for a different thread
Right!!
I don’t understand stubbornly holding to a proven blueprint for failure and then demanding the rest of the world to support you in your campaign to self-destruct!!!
Stacking the deck AGAINST your OWN children is beyond my understanding!!
After 30+ years of Affirmative Action, there is no longer any valid excuse for willful failure.
Of course, if still refuse to apply yourself, if you insist on very bad choices for yourself (drugs, dropping out of school, MULTIPLE unwed pregnancies, etc.) then no amount of assistance is going to work for you.
With all the Affirmative Action advantages minorities have enjoyed in the US, I’d be ashamed if I couldn’t claim a MUCH better situation for myself than I have!!
Oh, well. Back to loafin’.
>> A Framework for Understanding Poverty” by Ruby Payne
Haven’t heard of it - will order a copy. My favorite on the same subject: “Life at the Bottom” by Theodore Dalrymple. (Focused on English poverty, but quite relevant for us.)
You’ll love it! It’s not the standard boring textbook, she’s very funny and practical.
Wall it off.
Lefties like Darwinism, do they not?
The disincorporation happened years ago and some people are actually fond of their police departments and don’t buy into the notion that monolithic police departments are the answer.
There is a movement afoot for the consolidation of all goverment functions via Better Together St. Louis. Most areas other than St. Louis City are against it because of bureaucracy and in affluent West County it will never happen. You might see some consolidation amongst the North county police departments after this incident.
FWIW, the average police officer coming out of the academy these days has over a thousand hours of training.
Also, unlike the East Coast, police unions are very weak here and hold no real sway. Most police officers belong to the Fraternal Order of Police who provide legal assistance if involved in incidents like Michael Brown but generally steer clear of labor issues like traditional unions do.
There was some attempts at unionizing by local labor unions, it fizzled.
But there are cities where it is still expensive and safe to live, so far. Inner Loop Houston, Manhattan, etc. Dallas has expensive safe rich areas. I think all cities do. I don’t know exactly where the inner city ghettos are compared to the inner city rich areas.
But the rich “safe” areas of Houston have been getting robbed a lot lately. Home burglaries, etc.
It happened in Claremont Ca, too. Rich little college town... Houses were getting broken into by day while people were at work. Businesses were getting broken into at night, while they were closed.
They started catching some of those thieves, mostly from nearby towns, like Pomona.
I actually thought i recognized some faces in the Ferguson crowd, as the same ones in the OWS crowd. They smell the same! They admitted to being paid $65 per day to protest.
I would love to put a fence around Texas and not let anyone new in! We would be the richest state/country on earth.
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