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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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: academicbias; acceptyourbeatdown; blacks; carolanderson; ferguson; michaelbrown; obama; raceriots; racism; teaparty; whites; whiteymustpay
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To: pallis

Millions of whites make a living wage or better on the Internet. Do the ISPs discriminate against blacks?


61 posted on 08/29/2014 4:29:40 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: kenmcg

Another nail in racism’s coffin?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7111/19/Another-nail-in-racism%E2%80%99s-coffin-.aspx


62 posted on 08/29/2014 4:34:23 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: piytar
We’re not enraged. We are just sick and tired of lawless thugs. Of all races.

We’re not enraged yet.

..fixed it.

63 posted on 08/29/2014 5:26:34 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It’s white rage against progress”

Indeed it is. And it’s completely shameful about all the rioting and looting underway right now by the Tea Party, especially with the National Guard having to be called out in so many states. I simply don’t understand why the media are consistently downplaying all of these Tea Party riots of rage against blacks. It’s almost like they aren’t really happening for all you read about it in the press.


64 posted on 08/29/2014 5:48:11 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seriously? Why is this bilge even published?

I didn’t read past the first few lines. Waste of time.


65 posted on 08/29/2014 5:57:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

It’d be bad enough if it was on some blog or leftist magazine that hardly anyone reads, but it’s in the newspaper of the Beltway that they all read.


66 posted on 08/29/2014 5:58:48 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: 2ndDivisionVet
  Now, under the guise of protecting the sanctity of the ballot box, conservatives have devised measures — such as photo ID requirements — to block African Americans’ access to the polls.

  I'll be back faster than you can say 'furious.'
67 posted on 08/29/2014 6:29:31 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Progress?! A mostly black town with a mostly white police force and governing body? No, black progress would be for the black community there to step up and get involved, hold public office, attend the police academy, etc.


68 posted on 08/29/2014 6:49:54 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’d be bad enough if it was on some blog or leftist magazine that hardly anyone reads, but it’s in the newspaper of the Beltway that they all read.

I'm guilty of reading it myself. It's always on top of the microwave at work, so I thumb through it. Mostly, I do the Sudoku puzzle (section C, by the comics).

69 posted on 08/29/2014 6:54:29 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Denial, denial, denial.
Projection, projection, projection.
Fantasy, fantasy, fantasy
Lies, lies, lies
Delusion, delusion, delusion.


70 posted on 08/29/2014 6:59:03 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WTF?

No. Seriously...

WTF????


71 posted on 08/29/2014 7:02:25 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Marxist “feely” women are on a roll tonight about Ferguson. They know the truth of the matter, and they are trying head it off at the pass.


72 posted on 08/29/2014 7:10:14 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s the ultimate ambition of the hard core left. To refight the Bolshevik revolution in the name of class and race on American soil.


73 posted on 08/29/2014 7:46:38 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She's Head-Mo-Loddy. She has more head than body!

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.




74 posted on 08/29/2014 7:49:15 PM PDT by rdb3 (Get out the putter, this one's on the green.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Never has so much been given to so few and they have done so little.


75 posted on 08/29/2014 7:56:19 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Being a retarded moron apparently enhances your chances of becoming a professor at some institutions.


76 posted on 08/29/2014 8:01:53 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I ‘struggled’ to get through the whole diatribe.
Near the end she is blaming the Voter ID for suppressing Blacks.
She gives some figures as to the # of Blacks that don’t have a Govt issued ID card (she mentions a % of Whites also).

Well, if that many people don’t have ID’s, it makes the other #’s for welfare, assistance, food stamps, going to a moochelle book signing etc really bad.

I am 75 and when I buy my O’Douls NA I get my ID checked at Walmart.


77 posted on 08/29/2014 8:15:19 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)a GUN is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one-probably never need one again.)
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To: jospehm20

carol anderson is an embarrassment to her self, to her race, to her college and to humanity. That such an ignorant racist could write such tripe doesn’t surprise me. That anyone would publish her spew is. This fool is lucky she has tenure and affirmative action going for her, She should be a washroom attendant with such ignorance.


78 posted on 08/29/2014 8:17:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; Clintonfatigued; ...

I hereby revoke this woman’s academic degrees, she is a professor of bull**it and nothing more.


79 posted on 08/29/2014 9:54:29 PM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: jospehm20

at almost all of them I’m afraid….not quite all, but almost….


80 posted on 08/29/2014 11:07:55 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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