Ferguson , Newark, Watts, What Has Changed In 50 Years?

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Reverend Jesse Jackson was in Ferguson , also in Watts and Newark in 1967 more than 50 years ago.

We all went thru the Rodney King police abuse case and the Watts riots in LA.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/from-watts-in-1965-to-ferguson-today-lessons-on-race-left-unlearned/2014/08/14/5afaeffa-23fc-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html

"There are always specific conditions that lead to racial disturbances, but a broader question might be: Why do they keep happening? Are lessons ever learned?
Sometimes, but experts say enduring racial inequality and police failings practically guarantee more wrongful killings and civil disorder."
 
Rich One said:
Reverend Jesse Jackson was in Ferguson , also in Watts and Newark in 1967 more than 50 years ago.

We all went thru the Rodney King police abuse case and the Watts riots in LA.

http://www.washingto...60ce_story.html

"There are always specific conditions that lead to racial disturbances, but a broader question might be: Why do they keep happening? Are lessons ever learned?
Sometimes, but experts say enduring racial inequality and police failings practically guarantee more wrongful killings and civil disorder."
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But aren't accusations of racism just demagoguery? http://tinyurl.com/kjqnuyj
 
And this is supposed to be a first world country? I didnt know it was that decadent.
 
Matiasba said:
And this is supposed to be a first world country? I didnt know it was that decadent.
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The dead guy in the video is said to have just perpetrated a robbery and approached the police with a knife in his hand.
 
No one has commented on the Racial Issue and disturbances?? The KKK created a fund to support the policeman that shot teen Brown
 
The police could have used tasers. Lord knows they usually don't hesitate. The young man was obviously mentally disturbed or simply uncontrollable angry and wanted a confrontation out of frustration.

This video is far more disturbing to me than the Rodney King video of yesteryear.

It represent a society in transition to an authoritarian state - where the police have the power of judge, jury and executioner.

It was an execution.
 
Plenty has changed in 50 years:

- There are now more black men in chains than there ever were under slavery.
- The gap between black and white families' economic net worth has tripled since 1984.

Net househould worth:​
Whites = $110,000​
Blacks= $5,000​

- Arm in arm with poverty, black infant mortality is up 25%, meaning black babies are over three times as likely to die before age 1.


Lots has changed in the last 50 years, just not in the direction most people think.
 
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