I don't want Justice for Michael Brown

[ashling]

Michael Brown - he deserves, but will never get justice. Like funerals, justice is not for the dead, it is for the living.

I honor all that Micheal Brown and countless others could have been and achieved in life ... if they had been allowed to live. But now that is a permanently unfulfilled dream.

Like Steinbeck says, “Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”

And that's the tragedy of it. Michael Brown just got the one without justice.

One of my favorite lines from Steinbeck's phenominal The Grapes of Wrath is when Granpa is buried along side the road (what a metaphor) and Kacey, the former preacher , is asked to say words over his body.

"I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn."

That's what I'd pray for too: Justice for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn.

[Bertha Venation]

1. I hope you're cross-posting to GD.

[ashling]

4. Are you saying that this shouldn't be posted here

or that it is a message which should be heard elsewhere as well ...

I posted something like this when Trayon was murdered

and got shouted down for being anti-whatever ...

[Bertha Venation]

5. The latter.

I think your comments should have a broader audience.

[herding cats]

2. Just like a funeral, justice for those killed, is really for those left behind.

I feel you, ashling. To the very depth of my heart.

Wishing you a holiday off tomorrow filled with loving family. A lot of us need that now, more than usual.

[ashling]

3. Thank you