 | Modern day lynchings! |
Comment History  | I want to believe you are right. I've read your research and it is nothing short of brilliant.
But I also have first hand experience with this type of situation. I was one of the students who organized the student protests at Georgia State University in 1992. Probably the hardest phone call I have ever made in my life was having to call my father and tell him that I was 30 days away from graduating and probably would need bail money and would get expelled. Thankfully Carl Patton was newly installed as president and he took us and our complaints seriously where no one else had.
So to sit in front of the TV and watch the same story played out that I actively engaged in fighting 20+ years ago is disheartening to say the least. To be pushed to the point of breaking and to then be drug through the mud when you finally snap and decide enough is enough is soul sapping and exhausting. |
 | I have a new, a little more optimistic, take on where we are now. When I look at all the demonstrations in 39 states, even for goodness sakes Gainesville, GA-- the great majority completely peaceful I feel a powerful people who will no longer be denied.. A long rocky road but I do believe the status quo system will not stand. |
| Frankly I do not expect anything to come of the DOJ investigation either.
I do not expect justice from a system that was never designed to protect me and, if anything, is deliberately constructed to keep me oppressed. And I am frankly outdone at why anyone expected anything else but the result that occurred in Ferguson.
THE SYSTEM DOES NOT VALUE ME OR ANYONE THAT REMOTELY LOOKS LIKE ME. It's not "a few bad apples". It's not "an isolated incident".
It is a long standing, systemic effort to make sure that I and everyone like me remain in our place grateful for whatever scraps we are thrown. |
 | The DOJ investigation should bring out all the facts. |
 | I agree. It's disgusting. Further, if you listen to the story the cop tells, that they keep airing and airing and airing, it makes NO sense. He's well-coached to double down and stick to that story no matter what. Maybe he even believes it now. But the elements of the story do not flow the way reality flows. If you close your eyes and try to follow it, you can't. Something happened, but I cannot begin to swallow the officer's version. And as you point out, the young man is not here to tell his. |
Original Post | I can't let the day go by without saying this. I have off and on had CNN on most of the day. What they are doing with this crime in Ferguson is shamefully criminal in itself. Constantly running the police officer's interview giving his story. Presenting Michael Brown as a violent criminal. Being dead, unable to show himself as a human and defend himself. Presenting protesters as inciting riots. verbally attacking the family and their lawyers. It is as outrageous as anything Fox does.
None of us can know the whole truth. What we do know is the DA and now CNN are making certain we will never know. Missouri government and police force behaving like an occupying military force toward the citizens of Ferguson and I believe all African Americans. That is why there were and will be nation wide peaceful protests. -- barely noted by any of the cable news outlets. |
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