This is the reality of what the myth of Michael Brown and Ferguson, Missouri, was supposed to be about.

This is the reality of what the myth of Michael Brown and Ferguson, Missouri, was supposed to be about.

 

Ferguson with riot gear
In Ferguson, Missouri, not long ago

 

It appears to be simply, factually, untrue that white police in Amerikkka have declared war on innocent black men.  Yet this claim has been advanced quite irresponsibly as if it were indisputable fact, and it has caused enormous damage across the United States and exposed this nation to smug and often disingenuous finger-pointing from abroad.

 

However, the case of Walter Scott, in South Carolina, appears to be one of straightforward, wholly unjustifiable, utterly senseless murder, by a white cop, of a defenseless black man:

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416645/camera-will-mean-justice-walter-scott-charles-c-w-cooke

 

I’m pleased that the police officer involved has been arrested and swiftly indicted on precisely that charge.

 

No justice, no peace?

 

There will be justice.

 

There should be peace.

 

 


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