"White rage doesn't have to take to the streets"

[applegrove]

White rage doesn't have to take to the streets

By Carol Anderson at the Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-ferguson-brown-wilson-perspec-1125-20141125-story.html#page=1

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When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African-American male..

But that has it precisely backward. What we've actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African-American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment.

It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.





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[Aerows]

1. Burning down

the businesses of local blacks, torching them to ruins so that black families are under a hardship just BECAUSE they have a business in the area is deplorable.

[applegrove]

2. Those were knuckleheads, as Van Jones would say. Burning down white business is deplorable too.

[Aerows]

3. I call them boneheads

But knuckleheads is just as apt. If you are upset about what is happening in your community, burning your community down isn't the best way to resolve problems.

Too sad

[Indydem]

5. I heard a story on NPR where protestors protected some businesses.

It's a damn shame that they couldn't have kept them all safe.

THAT would have been a hell of a statement to the world.

[ChazII]

7. I read about protestors protecting a gas station.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/crowdfunding-helps-bakery-rebuild-aftermath-170100139.html;_ylt=AwrSbgbGrHZUPwQAO1lXNyoA

She is one strong and courageous woman. She was interviewed earlier today and she plans on hiring more employees to help with the orders that have come in since her building was smashed.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Spot on. White Rage trained the killer, killed the kid, and lit the fires directly or indirectly.

Thanks for the post!

K/R

[nilesobek]

6. Instead of taking to the streets,

white rage manifests itself in segregation and desperate xenophobia. I read numerous online accounts of how people were arming themselves and making compounds out of their homes.