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kpete

(71,983 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 10:10 AM Aug 2014

The Song Remains the Same

“The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us… had better be the business of all of us.” ~ Mamie Till, 1955





http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/08/13/the-song-remains-the-same/
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/how-computer-hackers-changed-the-ferguson-protests/article_d81a1da4-ae04-5261-9064-e4c255111c94.html


From Maddow:

Anger in Ferguson follows record of racial disparity

Rev. Al Sharpton, MSNBC host and president of the National Action Network, talks with Rachel Maddow about turning outrage over the shooting of Michael Brown into change to correct the evident racial disparity in how laws are enforced.

Part of the report?

She’s talking about a whistle blower in the St Louis County police depart. They had a “Lets have a black day”. A day where cops were to arrest as many black people as they could.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/anger-in-ferguson-follows-record-of-racism-317652547718

just saying,
kp
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