Posted on 08/17/2015 4:43:57 AM PDT by rellimpank
The new asphalt rectangle in the middle of the 2900 block of Canfield Drive, Ferguson, Mo., seemed like a scab formed over a deep wound. It was where the fallen body of Michael Brown lay for 4½ hours in 107-degree temperatures on Aug. 9, 2014.
Stuffed animals had been piled oh, so tenderly upon the site. Our interracial group formed a circle around the memorial and prayed.
Ten other women had joined me on a mini-pilgrimage to Ferguson I had envisioned and planned since May. It was our free day out of a one-week global assembly of women in religious life held August 2-7 in St. Louis. While others went to tour the arches or explore other more entertaining venues, we left the beauty and comfort of the Mercy Retreat Center and headed toward Ferguson.
Driving around Ferguson we could see where damaged buildings had been repaired, but in the atmosphere one could feel lingering brokenness, anger and pain. Since the Michael Brown tragedy, any healing of the Ferguson community was disrupted, like a scab torn open again and again, by the nationwide wave of similar shooting deaths that followed, including Samuel DuBose, Walter Scott and more. Added to that was the traumatic shock of the June 17 massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C.
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Throw in a free Swisher Sweets dispenser and a punching bag with Apu from The Simpsons on it, and I think you have it!
Did it have a huge teddy bear pushing around a small one?
More like a Band-Aid covering up an abscess. The corruption underneath is still there, and covering it up is just going to make it spread.
I’m down for that struggle....
As they “tenderly” place stuffed animals, someone should be urged to play the film of him [not so tenderly] pushing around the store owner just minutes before he was killed.
It’ll live longer than he did.
Apparently ‘thug’ has become a banned word.
They asterisked the whole word out when I tried to post.
Was able to get my point across by replacing one letter with an asterisk. PC insanity.
The left will seek to ban any word that is too “truthy”.
“Thug” is far too truthy and descriptive of reality and hinders their agenda.
I first read the author’s name as Macaca ...
Where’s George Allen when you need him?
No ... Screwed up urban black culture. Screwed up urban leftist culture.
Americans know that Thug Michael Brown got his justice right there on the street.
Thas’ Raaccisss
Justice for Trayvonn...............
Justice for Micheal Brown..........
................dig them up and shoot’m again.
After reading this sappy fantasy of a mental patient, read the comment section.
It’ll restore your faith that people are paying attention to the truth of what this thug did to get himself killed.
Oh!! my coffee went flying out of my mouth when I saw picture! LOL Thank you for making me laugh!
Can you change it to a cantelope?
LOL You guys have me rolling!
Brown’s “living memorial’ is present in every bullet used to kill a cop ever since Ferguson.
prolly all stolen too...
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