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Mourners urge black Americans to take action
The Kansas City Star / The Associated Press ^ | August 25, 2014 | Jim Suhr

Posted on 08/25/2014 5:12:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown — recalling him as a "gentle giant," aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college.

But the funeral that unfolded Monday was about much more than the black 18-year-old who lay in the closed casket after being shot to death by a white police officer. The emotional service sought to consecrate Brown's death as another in the long history of the civil rights movement and implored black Americans to change their protest chants into legislation and law.

"Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard, and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this," said Eric Davis, one of Brown's cousins....

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; gentlegiant; lawenforcement; michaelbrown
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Michael Brown hadn’t been shot, wouldn’t he have been headed for jail and not HVAC school for assaulting a cop?


21 posted on 08/25/2014 5:32:37 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep.....I’m all for action by African-Americans in Ferguson, MO!!! Get rid of the current police force and let the local African-American community leaders run the police department!!! This will bring the “Three Ring Circus” police into being in Ferguson, MO!!! And....the police commisssioner should be Al Sharpton and the rest of the low life Obama USA, “Traitor ilk Democrats!!! Should be quite the show of chaos and lawlessness!!!

This Obama/Holder/Sharpton gig ain’t got much Mojo....no matter how hard the media trys to spin it. The overwhelming number of all American knows that Michael Brown was just another would be, cop killer, Obamabot , thug!!! all the hoopla, marches and demonstration ampounted to zilch numbers and will be forgotten quickly!!! Most African-Americans could care less!!! By the way....who is Trayvon Martin....again??? Just another Obamabot thug!!!


22 posted on 08/25/2014 5:34:07 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: bikerman
That is now the narrative and it will be repeated by the media until it becomes truth. If you don't believe it, ask any reporter what happened to Travon Martin and they will tell you that he was stalked and murdered by Neighborhood Watch leader George Zimmerman. While he [Martin] was merely strolling about in the neighborhood.
23 posted on 08/25/2014 5:34:53 PM PDT by sport
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To: bikerman
Obama didn't just divide America. He gave definition to those who hate America.

Those who have not assimilated will now attack this country.

And ISIS has been given a milligan.

The President denies we are war when those who wage war against us are building strength.

All said and done...Obama is counted among our enemies.

He fooled Hairy Reed and Nancy Pelosi.

They are too invested to admit it...but Obama is a Jihadi.

But as Admiral Yamamoto said, "we have awakened a sleeping giant."

Get that Obama...you have destroyed the goodwill America feels for African Americans and you have awakened us to the VERY REAL THREAT OF ISLAM.

24 posted on 08/25/2014 5:37:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No surprise. They want fighting in the streets, and vicious attacks on innocent Whites.


25 posted on 08/25/2014 5:39:03 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: bikerman

I don’t know if I heard right. As I switched on Nancy Grace, she was hyperventilating over this story and I quickly changed channels. Seemed she said, “. . .an unarmed teenager on the way to visit grandma.”


26 posted on 08/25/2014 5:40:17 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While the speakers were the audience to take action against whitey, twenty black males and innocent black children were being gunned down by other black males.


27 posted on 08/25/2014 5:40:29 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess this means boosting more Swisher Sweets and punching cops and trying to get their guns.


28 posted on 08/25/2014 5:41:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait, didn’t they already show up at voting booths and cast their multiple votes for hussein? How’s that change working for ya! Stir the pot. Stir the pot.


29 posted on 08/25/2014 5:42:04 PM PDT by bgill
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

They already have all that a few miles from Ferguson over in East St. Louis, Illinois.


30 posted on 08/25/2014 5:43:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

http://www.amren.com/news/2014/08/to-understand-the-ferguson-riots-look-to-africa/
‘We have Africa in our midst.’


31 posted on 08/25/2014 5:46:16 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now that Brown is in the Ground I think we will soon see the details of the police report.

Funny how the media keeps trying to float the “gentle giant” meme. Comments over at Yahoo Noos are overwhelmingly pro-Wilson but this is going to be a lost cause soon enough for the Progressives.


32 posted on 08/25/2014 5:46:41 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Sh!t World)
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To: driftless2

That’s “while the speakers were URGING the audience to take action against whitey”....as I get older it gets harder to proofread.


33 posted on 08/25/2014 5:49:57 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NBC reporter that was covering the funeral, don’t know his name, asks one of the family members if they believed that Michael would ever receive justice for what was done to him. Nope. No bias there at all.


34 posted on 08/25/2014 5:52:33 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Claire Wolfe called. She said the Awkward Phase is over.)
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we will soon learn more about the background of the Brown Family if this goes to Trial.

will be interesting to learn the Kid’s grades in school, and if he was really enrolled in a Trade School to start in just two days before he robbed a local store for cigars, if he wanted those cigars and he was such a great kid and a ‘gentle giant’ why didn’t he pay for a couple instead of stealing an entire box???

the real Michael Brown will soon be known..


35 posted on 08/25/2014 5:58:34 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ya...Take Action

Don’t break the law.
Gangs are the fast track to failure.
Stay in school and graduate.
Get some religion and keep that focus in your life.
Get a job and be responsible for yourself.
Get married before you have kids.
Stay married.


36 posted on 08/25/2014 6:00:12 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Palio di Siena
Aspiring rapper. What gets me is that these people think that’s a legit life plan.

Hey, I'm 47, a mother of 3, but I'm still an "aspiring" ballerina. Don't dis my dream, yo!

37 posted on 08/25/2014 6:03:11 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: COBOL2Java

I guess I can volunteer to be a poll watcher in any neighborhood since I vote by mail.

These clowns would not be standing there long.


38 posted on 08/25/2014 6:04:44 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The yahoo report is laughable.

“Relatives and friends remembered Brown as a “gentle giant” who turned to religion in his last days and had premonitions of his own death. Michael Brown’s family bid farewell to the 18-year-old with gospel hymns and fiery orations that rocked a packed Baptist church”.

That’s called paying Lip service to God - if you had truly raised your son according to the Word of God he would not be dead now. They have failed as parents and are totally blind to the truth.


39 posted on 08/25/2014 6:07:20 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: workerbee

No one dissing you. But if the shoe fits..


40 posted on 08/25/2014 6:11:47 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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