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Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.
The Washington Post ^ | August 29, 2014 | Professor Carol Anderson

Posted on 08/29/2014 3:06:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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.

White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash.

The North’s victory in the Civil War did not bring peace. Instead, emancipation brought white resentment that the good ol’ days of black subjugation were over. Legislatures throughout the South scrambled to reinscribe white supremacy and restore the aura of legitimacy that the anti-slavery campaign had tarnished. Lawmakers in several states created the Black Codes, which effectively criminalized blackness, sanctioned forced labor and undermined every tenet of democracy....

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KEYWORDS: academicbias; acceptyourbeatdown; blacks; carolanderson; ferguson; michaelbrown; obama; raceriots; racism; teaparty; whites; whiteymustpay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey!! Where is the “MEGA HURL” alert?!?


41 posted on 08/29/2014 3:46:18 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: ExTxMarine

The title doesn’t do that for you?


42 posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: vette6387

Transitional justice? OMG, Orwell undershot his predictions…..


43 posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:40 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength

It works for Louie Goat'iérrez


44 posted on 08/29/2014 3:48:46 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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http://www.aas.emory.edu/aas_degree.html


45 posted on 08/29/2014 3:50:38 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
All of my great grandfathers fought for the Union Army.
I'm beginning to wish they had stayed home and tended the corn.
46 posted on 08/29/2014 3:53:29 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: TigersEye

“All of my great grandfathers fought for the Union Army.”


Mine were all starving in Ireland so why the heck should I pay reparations?
.


47 posted on 08/29/2014 3:58:27 PM PDT by Mears
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Affirmative action


48 posted on 08/29/2014 4:01:18 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage.

Well.. no it's not. That matches the wanton lies that benefit the race-grievance industries and the ideologues of the left.

Face facts folks. Abe will explain from "the other side."

If you could first know where you are and whither you are tending, you could better judge what to do and how to do it. You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.

Have you no tendency to the latter condition?

Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Republican Party hands-across-the-aisle doctrine and the dreadful actions among statism's chief architects.


49 posted on 08/29/2014 4:03:33 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Be prepared for a music stoppage in October.


50 posted on 08/29/2014 4:05:09 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These race baiters will never tell the truth. Generation after generation of the black race has depended on the American welfare system, which has allowed too many to sit on their butts, get fat and pump out kids to raise their stipends. Damn right there’s white rage, among libs and conservatives alike, who don’t want to live in predominantly black neighborhoods or who want to send their kids to black schools. When the race baiters start cleaning up their own problems without picking taxpayers pockets maybe then the problems will be rectified.


51 posted on 08/29/2014 4:06:12 PM PDT by kenmcg (b)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Outbreaks of White Rage are called World Wars and the entire Earth shakes from one end to the other. The last thing this hairy beast wants to see is a White Rage Outburst.


52 posted on 08/29/2014 4:06:47 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s about black criminals supported by the white media.


53 posted on 08/29/2014 4:07:02 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Responsibility2nd

If the districts were redrawn to dilute black voting power they did it in a very strange way.

Stats below for District 1 which Ferguson is in.

White 325,286
Black or African American 363,394
American Indian and Alaska Native 1,495
Asian 19,826
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 14


54 posted on 08/29/2014 4:07:10 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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55 posted on 08/29/2014 4:07:18 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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>> It’s white rage against progress.

Then fight back by making some tangible progress instead of just yapping about it... if you’re really that interested.


56 posted on 08/29/2014 4:11:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: colorado tanker

Obama is cutting the military and it’s payroll. But in general, yea, she is an idiot.

“Government payrolls slashed? Under Obama? You have to be dumber than dishwater to think that’s the case.”


57 posted on 08/29/2014 4:12:30 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: TigersEye
My great grandfather arrived from Wales in 1863. He fought in the Union Army and spent time as a POW until the war ended in 1865. That was the price demanded by his father-in-law to be from Aberystwyth. Reparations? ESAD.
58 posted on 08/29/2014 4:14:41 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. When whites (esp American whites) become enraged, nations fall.

We’re not enraged. We are just sick and tired of lawless thugs. Of all races.


59 posted on 08/29/2014 4:18:29 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The thinking of this author will do nothing but make matters worse for urban blacks. Her type of progress has been tried for decades.

We would all love to see urban blacks progress out of public housing, out of the gangsta’ world, out of rebelling against education and local authorities, into better lives, less ignorance, less poverty, and less public dole. Jobs would be a good start, but no one wants to invest in areas where the people go bat $#!t crazy when a violent thug gets killed for being violent.

But I digress. More money won’t solve the problem. The billions of dollars the DOJ is going to give to race agitators, and as rewards for irresponsibility won’t help, and everyone knows it, including this author. After all the destruction that has happened to black families and communities since agitators and the federal government stepped in to fix problems in the 60s, one thing is clear. There is no solution to the mess that has been made.

Black people are frustrated and looking to lash out, and blame someone. They can’t blame black people, because it won’t do any good, and there is no payoff. So blame white people, blame businesses, blame authorities, and sue them all for a little satisfaction. That’s the payoff.

We fought a civil war to help get blacks out of slavery and off the plantations. Things were far from perfect and fair, but black people were part of the solution, and they were working to make things better. After the civil rights movement was co-opted by the left, blacks began to move back onto another plantation, the Democrat plantation, and they are stuck on it.

White privilege isn’t about skin color. It’s about culture and a way of life, and anyone can get in on it, providing they are willing to work for it. It’s tough for anyone who doesn’t want to work for it, and one thing is certain. The best way into the privilege is to get off the Democrat plantation.


60 posted on 08/29/2014 4:27:09 PM PDT by pallis
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