Frustration in Ferguson--- 3 Paragraphs From Charles M Blow Hit The Nail Firmly On The Head
MON AUG 18, 2014 AT 02:04 AM PDT
Three Paragraphs From Charles M Blow Hit The Nail Firmly On The Head
If you really want to understand
Yes, there are the disturbingly repetitive and eerily similar circumstances of many cases of unarmed black people being killed by police officers. This reinforces black peoples beliefs supportable by actual data that blacks are treated less fairly by the police.
But I submit that this is bigger than that. The frustration we see in Ferguson is about not only the present act of perceived injustice but also the calcifying system of inequity economic, educational, judicial drawn largely along racial lines.
In 1951, Langston Hughes began his poem Harlem with a question: What happens to a dream deferred? Today, I must ask: What happens when one desists from dreaming, when the very exercise feels futile?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/opinion/charles-m-blow-frustration-in-ferguson.html?ref=opinion&_r=1http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/18/1322531/-Three-Paragraphs-From-Charles-M-Blow-Hit-The-Nail-Staight-On-The-Head