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In reply to the discussion: Here's what will happen because of Ferguson: [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Long term, I'm afraid it's going to get much, much worse. I've known some good cops, but the idiots and jerks I've known who were cops unfortunately greatly outnumber them. Of course, it's not just cops, either. It's the racial outlook of Americans in general. For so long, there has been this little act as if racial prejudice did not exist, or was not harmful - particularly among white, clueless conservatives.
Then a black man was elected President - and suddenly the level of hatred, racism, bigotry, stupidity... the threats, the insults, they were right out there in the open. I once knew a young man from South Carolina who told me that the South would rise again, that the civil war had not truly ended, that it was just a long damned truce. Some times, I wonder if perhaps he was right.
I don't think that it's going to go well for quite some time, Manny. I have faith that, in time, it will end well - that things will change for the better. It's time to pull out that ugly old racism, drag it's ass into the open - and confront it. As long as we have so many shmucks denying it's very existence, I fear we'll see more Michael Browns.