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ecib  ·  3655 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Darron Wilson not indicted

    I feel badly for the jury and for officer Wilson if this was in fact nothing that we fear it was,

The thing is, for the black folks, activists, and their supporters in Ferguson and around the country, this whole deal was about waaaaaaaaaaay more than Mike Brown almost immediately after his killing.

It's about overly aggressive use of force by police killing and arresting minorities disproportionately coupled with a justice system designed to incarcerate them instead of giving them a level shot at justice. That's what the grievances on the ground actually are if one digs down and talks to folks there. Dig is the wrong word because it's right there if you just ask.

They aren't wrong.

The optics on this are terrible for those consumed with black pain and rage and wonderful for white people who will bend over backwards not to see what it's about and point to the riots as proof of what's wrong with 'those people'. Happened here in Detroit.

"A riot is the language of the unheard" -Martin Luther King Jr.