So will it happen major racial riots all over US..

[mylye2222]

Now that a corpirate Grand Jury decided the cop Wilson was not guilty?

I think yes..

[cali]

1. I think no- and I fail to see how this was a "corporate" Grand Jury.

[mylye2222]

3. They obviously made this decision

Because they WANTED TROUBLES.
Because they love division and hatred.

[cali]

6. are you referring to the jury?

if so, I disagree. There is no way you can know what you claim. none. zero. nada.

[pipoman]

9. Only someone clueless about the grand jury process would believe such tripe..

[annabanana]

12. or someone from another country

or someone who is trying to understand a complicated procedure in a language they are not fluent in

[Recursion]

2. Doubtful. There aren't the Stokely Carmichaels of 40 years ago

I'm also not clear in what sense the grand jury was "corporate" (assuming you meant that).

Also they didn't find him "not guilty", they returned no true bill. Huge (and legally crucial) difference.

[still_one]

5. I agree

[Recursion]

8. I'm halfway through writing an article on gentrification and its effects on civil disobedience

Carmichael keeps coming up in my research (I lived in DC -- and knew lots of neighbors who were there in '68 -- so it's a good starting place).

In 1968 Columbia Heights (my old DC neighborhood) was essentially 100% African American. Carmichael had a geographical locus of support between there and Howard (and the more I dig in, the more the local non-Howard residents seem to have been much more important than contemporary accounts let on).

But Columbia Heights today is actually plurality-white, followed by Latin American, followed by Ethiopian, followed by African-American. The poor black population was exiled over the line to Maryland, where the dispersal doesn't allow for that geographical locus. This is important for Ferguson, which is sort of the Prince George's County MD of St. Louis.

Anyways. It's not just that there aren't the firebrands of yore; it's that residential patterns are very different.

[Travis_0004]

4. just ferguson

Other cities might have a window or two broken but I dount anything major will happen

[pipoman]

7. No....

What is "corpirate"?

[rogerashton]

10. corpirate

I think maybe the OP regards the grand jury as representative or a tool of our corporation-dominated society. (Typos happen sometimes when one hurries or is particularly moved.) I think that's a mistake. White supremacism is not the same as corporate domination. It is important to oppose both, but in doing so, it is necessary to distinguish between them, in order to oppose them effectively.

I would have written "supremism" but the dictionary insists that the word is "supremacism."

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Race Riots? That would . . . . Sir

I posted this in the African American group.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11879781


Nope. White people in America of the bigoted/racial prejudice flavor aren't getting their way on this one.

Notice who I framed my response about - it's not ALL white people. It's just the bad ones.

They aren't getting their way.

They don't get to retaliate by running around and setting us on fire and stringing us up from trees. So we aren't giving them ANYTHING to retaliate against.

Case closed - just because the media said it was going to be so - doesn't mean it's going to happen.

They aren't getting a reverse Tulsa, or Rosewood, or Paducah, or Waco.