Why Ferguson outcome should haunt every parent

[VivisMom]

marmar (65,367 posts)

Why Ferguson outcome should haunt every parent


from the Detroit Free Press:


By Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor


The smolder of injustice sparks to flame again in Ferguson, Mo.

It's happened before. It will happen again. And until we quell the still-burning fires of America's racial strife, we'll live with the smoke and ashes.

Every parent of a child of color lives, every day, in fear that a hoodie, a certain gait or an offhand remark might inspire authorities to see menace, and to strike with lethal force. I can't begin to know how to explain that to my son, now 11 and brown-skinned and beginning to look like some of the older kids I see in news reports like those from Ferguson.

Every parent in the nation should live with unease over the sustained and wretched dehumanization that assigns expendability to some children. Can we respect each other, let alone live together, if it's OK to kill some of our kids?

........(snip)........

The fear sweeping black families across the country is not about their children's innocence or guilt, but about the brutality with which authority is exercised, and the insistence that it's always justified. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2014/11/26/ferguson-michael-brown-race/70122128/

Doesn't haunt me. Wanna know why, marmar? Because my kids have been taught several things:

1) Don't steal
2) Don't talk back to authority figures, especially those who are armed

So no, this does not worry me in the least, because my kids aren't uneducated thugs.

ETA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025873892

[Carl]

The only fear these hood rats have is the welfare check getting cut off.

[DumbAss Tanker]

After reading that maudlin, mewling pile of pathetic whining, the only thing that haunts me is that there are people in this country stupid enough to write it.

[thundley4]

Almost every single black kid shot by a cop has done something to initiate a confrontation with police.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

There is a huge problem with black culture that no one seems to want to address. The left prefers to keep them on their plantation and voting democrat, rather than solve any problems.

[Dori]

So a Detroit Press reporter says parents are worried for their kids safety.

Did he mention the root causes? 

Isn't Detroit like city #1 in violence, failing schools, kids without parental support?

Nah, it's all about race....none of those ^ things have any bearing on it.

[GOBUCKS]

Normal people don't worry about their kid assaulting a police officer and trying to take his weapon.

To the vast majority of normal people the Ferguson grand jury decision was comforting.

[Gina]

marmar (65,367 posts)

Why Ferguson outcome should haunt every parent


from the Detroit Free Press:


By Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor


The smolder of injustice sparks to flame again in Ferguson, Mo.

It's happened before. It will happen again. And until we quell the still-burning fires of America's racial strife, we'll live with the smoke and ashes.

Every parent of a child of color lives, every day, in fear that a hoodie, a certain gait or an offhand remark might inspire authorities to see menace, and to strike with lethal force.

Maybe that is not right but um if that's what causing kids to get "murdered" then why do they still do all of the above? 

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

[HawkHogan]

My parents never had to teach me not to charge an officer.  I guess it's just my white privilege that taught me that.

[67 Rover]

My parents never had to teach me not to charge an officer.  I guess it's just my white privilege that taught me that.

White privilege.   

[Big Dog]

My son, like me and my father before me, grew up knowing to NOT commit robbery or assault on a law enforcement officer.

By DUmmy standards, that's 3 generations of white privilege!

'Don't shoot? Don't loot!'

[BEG]

Almost every single black kid shot by a cop has done something to initiate a confrontation with police.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

There is a huge problem with black culture that no one seems to want to address. The left prefers to keep them on their plantation and voting democrat, rather than solve any problems.

Bingo

[tanstaafl]

After reading that maudlin, mewling pile of pathetic whining, the only thing that haunts me is that there are people in this country stupid enough to write it.

Me too, DAT. And also the quavering, pearl-clutching imbeciles that read the crap and believe it.

[HawkHogan]

My son, like me and my father before me, grew up knowing to NOT commit robbery or assault on a law enforcement officer.

By DUmmy standards, that's 3 generations of white privilege!

'Don't shoot? Don't loot!'

There's so much white privilege in this thread, it may explode.