Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

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And in a move that shocks no one, Wilson resigns from Ferguson PD:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lisatozzi/darren-wilson-resigns-from-ferguson-police-department?s=mobile

 

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Well, besides the guy you shot to death.

 

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Brown's step father's church was burned, FBI is investigating as a civil rights violation. What about the other arsons?

 

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"I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."

 

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"I've never known of a black church being burned in Arkansas."
John Ferguson, Director Arkansas History Commission
quoted in the Frank Wolfe column June 9, 1996

"I looked through my files. I couldn't find anything." [referring to the Clinton quote about fires at black churches in Arkansas]
Curtis Sykes, Chairman Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee quoted in the Wolfe column June 9, 1996

"We were just fortunate not to have one." [when asked about fires at Arkansas black churches]
Jerry Jewell, former state senator and former
Branch President of Arkansas NAACP

 

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Look over here! Look over here!

For the love of God, don't look over there. Look over here!

 

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If we're going to have a "national discussion" about race, and not be a "nation of cowards", why would we limit the discussion to events like those that happened in Ferguson or Sanford?

Shouldn't everything be on the table?

Shouldn't all sides in the discussion lay out why their is mistrust?

How do you reach solutions without identifying all of the problems?

 

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When faced with such a large problem, what people choose to focus on reveals much of their priorities and character.

 

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Looks like Obama Bullshit Sprinkles were left out of the ingredients.

 

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OK. What about what they choose not to focus on? Does that reveal their priorities and/or character?

Too many white cops are not connected to the minority communities they patrol, and they lack respect for the people that live there. In the case of young black men, they often fear them.

Can we agree that is a true statement?

Now, having agreed to that, can we also look at the other side of the coin?

Can we discuss that many minority communities have high levels of crime, and that many of the residents lack respect for the cops that patrol their communities? And, in many cases fear the police?

How do we reach a place where there is respect that flows both ways, where the police and the community work together to reduce crime, and where fear is not an overwhelming presence?

Because that won't happen if all we do is focus on how bad the cops are, and we turn people like Michael Brown into folk heroes.