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Sun Nov 30, 2014, 12:55 PM Nov 2014

Where Do We Go After Ferguson? by Michael Eric Dyson

WHEN Ferguson flared up this week after a grand jury failed to indict the white police officer Darren Wilson for killing the unarmed black youth Michael Brown, two realities were illuminated: Black and white people rarely view race in the same way or agree about how to resolve racial conflicts, and black people have furious moral debates among ourselves out of white earshot.

These colliding worlds of racial perception are why many Americans view the world so differently, and why recent comments by President Obama and the former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani cut to the quick of black identity in America.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/where-do-we-go-after-ferguson.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

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Where Do We Go After Ferguson? by Michael Eric Dyson (Original Post) elleng Nov 2014 OP
kick BootinUp Nov 2014 #1
TKS! elleng Nov 2014 #2
A thought provoking article. Good Read! nt BootinUp Nov 2014 #3
Same place we've been going for 20 years now Derek V Nov 2014 #4
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