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Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America
The Root ^ | October 15, 2014 | Peniel E. Joseph

Posted on 10/15/2014 10:35:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There’s a social-justice movement taking hold across the nation. Michael Brown’s death, which turned Ferguson, Mo., into a battleground this past summer, has helped catalyze a larger struggle for racial and economic justice in America.

And St. Louis, where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer, has witnessed roiling street demonstrations that recall the heyday of the civil rights and black power eras. Taking a page straight from the civil rights era, activists launched a “weekend of resistance” that featured civil disobedience, direct action protests, tense standoffs with police and arrests.

The issues raised—ending police brutality, raising the minimum wage, transforming race relations—attracted a cross-generational group of activists. Dozens of protesters stood outside Busch Stadium and reminded baseball fans of the political stakes that dwarfed the outcome of a Major League Baseball playoff game. “This is not a happy time,” one demonstrator told the New York Times. “They come here and watch a baseball game while we die; we go out and get pepper sprayed and hit with tear gas for peaceful protesting.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; lawenforcement; michaelbrown; missouri; rabblerousers; raceriots; riots; trayvons
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

B(arbara) S(treisand!

Ferguson is about the racist community organizer in the White Hut driving his black slaves to the polls to vote for their Democrat plantation owners in November, just like the Saint Skittles scam in 2012.

The only purpose of affirmative action is to place people with IQs of 85 into positions for which they are completely unqualified.

Degrees in LGBT and African-Ameriacan studies qualify them for nothing.


21 posted on 10/15/2014 10:52:24 AM 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

If blacks want racial and economic justice, the first thing they need to do is lose the plantation mentality and stop voting Democrat.


22 posted on 10/15/2014 10:52:42 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, Ferguson, you’re last month’s news. Get over yourselves. Go home and wait for your EBT cards.


23 posted on 10/15/2014 10:53:15 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve got your ‘justice’ right here.


24 posted on 10/15/2014 10:55:35 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: blackdog

How far does Ebola spittle travel in a yelling mob?


25 posted on 10/15/2014 10:55:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author’s parents were visionaries. They named their warped offspring Peniel.


26 posted on 10/15/2014 10:57:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh please!!!

Get off your cross.

We need firewood for cooking...


27 posted on 10/15/2014 10:59:04 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Social justice would require that criminals, drug addicts, parents of illegitimate kids, school drop-outs, thugs like Michael Brown, and others who refuse to better themselves compensate hard working middle class Americans for all that has been ripped-off from them.


28 posted on 10/15/2014 11:02:10 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And St. Louis, where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer after brandishing his weapon and firing on the officer multiple times

There. Fixed it. I'm sure that leaving that bit out was just an oversight on the part of the author.

29 posted on 10/15/2014 11:02:46 AM PDT by wbill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America

Bullsh*t. The Demogogues are facing annihilation at the polls, so the usual group of Neo-Commies and Fellow Travelers is trying to rile up the stupid ghetto rats in hopes they'll flock to the polls like they did in 2012.

Desperation on the part of the enemy is always sad and funny at the same time.

31 posted on 10/15/2014 11:06:50 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

High English: “a larger struggle for racial and economic justice in America”.
Middle “: “a larger piece of your pie”.
Low “: “Gibsmedat”.


32 posted on 10/15/2014 11:07:28 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Kenton

Economic Justice ?= Gimme what YT got


33 posted on 10/15/2014 11:08:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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34 posted on 10/15/2014 11:08:28 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Penile Jackson thinks a new 60’s revolution is brewing.

We’ll find out on November 4th. IMO, the ground is beginning to shake & it’s coming from the majority, if you get my drift.


35 posted on 10/15/2014 11:09:30 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Malcontents R' Us!


36 posted on 10/15/2014 11:09:49 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I repeat ‘Ferghanistan’


37 posted on 10/15/2014 11:11:38 AM 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

“Economic Justice” is the siren call of Communism.


38 posted on 10/15/2014 11:13:44 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, it hasn’t. It has re-energized the same victim cabal that was hollering the same empty gibberish 50 years ago in Watts, Detroit, Harlem, and Oakland. More evidence that the Left is entirely out of fresh ideas.


39 posted on 10/15/2014 11:19:34 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

> This ‘Ferguson’ chit has NOTHING to do with Civil Rights and EVERYTHING to do with the grifters and their never-ending quest for wealth distribution.

Luckily, I have nothing left for them to redistribute! Thanks, Socialists!

You and me both plus a lot of other formerly wealthy by current standards here on the forum I bet. You’re not alone. The only fun I get to have any more is explaining to young salespersons or charity workers why I don’t have any money to spend on their products or donate and cap it off by asking them who they voted for. If they hang up I know the answer...: )


40 posted on 10/15/2014 11:26:27 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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