Vibes/prayers for Ferguson thread. Hoping all are safe and nobody gets hurt, even more than

[applegrove]

they have been already.

[bigwillq]

1. Peace and love

Cop and criminal need to promote more of both.

[Anansi1171]

2. So much more effective things we can do as blacks...

...to combat this politically. In a way this age is a gift and blacks have to see this (tragically) through the lens of America's shrinking.

The chief threats to black survival and prosperity are exposed: police abuse, mass incarceration, redlining, job discrimination, predatory lending.

We also have a political truth; white awareness and identification stemming from political insecurity. Even harder to hear claims of white supremacy or white privilege in such a context.

We need to politically focus on where they make the sausage of institutional racism and find something more substantial than street action which theyve armed for.

Anonymous is a great example of an Asymmetric approach, and every black American should support Morris Dee's SPLC.

[Anansi1171]

3. I forgot to mention disenfranchisement. A favorite of...

...the right.