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Lmfao.......... If you think riots never make anything better, wtf do you think a revolution is ?

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

--an 18-year-old black student from Ferguson, Mo., who was a few days from heading off to college, was shot by a police officer on Saturday. He was unarmed.

--St. Louis has long been one of the nation’s most segregated metropolitan areas, and there remains a high wall between black residents — who overwhelmingly have lower incomes — and the white power structure that dominates City Councils and police departments like the ones in Ferguson.

--Until the late 1940s, blacks weren’t allowed to live in most suburban St. Louis County towns, kept out by restrictive covenants that the Supreme Court prohibited in 1948.

--As whites began to flee the city for the county in the 1950s and ’60s, they used exclusionary zoning tactics — including large, single-family lot requirements that prohibited apartment buildings — to prevent blacks from moving in. Within the city, poverty and unrest grew.

--In 1980, the town was 85 percent white and 14 percent black; by 2010, it was 29 percent white and 69 percent black. But blacks did not gain political power as their numbers grew.

--The mayor and the police chief are white, as are five of the six City Council members. The school board consists of six white members and one Hispanic.

--black residents, lacking the wealth to buy property, move from apartment to apartment and have not put down political roots

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The idea here is that the black voters continue to be politically disenfranchised despite being in the majority of the population. The population is not protesting in a vacuum. Hopefully they will now organize and make some changes.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

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The idea here is that the black voters continue to be politically disenfranchised despite being in the majority of the population. The population is not protesting in a vacuum. Hopefully they will now organize and make some changes.

There is only ONE way this could happen... they do NOT vote.. their own damn fault no one else's... the above is crap logic. Those that vote elect their representatives... if you don't vote have no valid reason to complain.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I am sorry Marini... what is right and what is wrong should have no skin color qualification. Looting is ALWAYS wrong and NEVER justified in a civilized society.

Why when someone says an action by a group of people is wrong they must always be accused of being racists... or just don't understand this group of people or that group? When anarchist protest with looting and destruction at economic conventions... they are wrong too..and mostly they are white... looting is wrong if you are yellow...red... black...brown... white... purple...or green dammit....wrong wrong wrong wrong... skin color is no excuse for looting.

Many black people in Ferguson, in interviews by local new organisations... that I can't understand because I am white I guess, say the looting is wrong and want the protests to continue but the looting and violence to stop. They even say they are ashamed of the looting. I suppose that makes them uncle tom's and they don't understand their own Black people...Will I understand them just fine and believe they are the honorable people demanding change and it is them that will make it come about ...not the damn looters... the punks.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

If you listen to the interviews of the people of Ferguson there were no problems at all... there was no serious problems it is a great place to live in a mixed population.

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This particular incident was so grievous that it NEEDED to be addressed immediately. It seems, by the news stories, most of the looters arrested were not even from Ferguson. Yet the orderly protesters are from Ferguson.

The US and international news are making the city look like Selma 50 years ago... when it simply is not true.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom

I'm not aware of any KKK members on this forum.

Look deeper.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

"I write demanding full accountability for the police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. On August 9, 2014, a Ferguson police officer racially profiled and fatally shot Michael as the teen stood in the street with his hands in the air. Police subsequently failed to properly notify the family of Michael's death and callously left the young man lying deceased in the street for hours.

This type of brutal and racially motivated police violence has no place in law enforcement. Every day, Black residents of Ferguson and Missouri face possible abuse and death at the hands of an officer due to discriminatory policing tactics based on dehumanizing racial stereotypes. In order to secure the necessary justice for Michael's family and prevent this type of indefensible violence in the future, you must take immediate action.

Please exercise your authority to complete a rigorous investigation of the Ferguson Police Department's racially discriminatory policing, prosecute said officers to the fullest extent of the law, and begin the firing process for all involved officers."

-- Rashad Robinson, the Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org,

I got the above message from a Petition being circulated on MoveOn.org.

Please tell us how you got all the facts before they were released.