How the media would cover the events in Ferguson were this another country:

[kpete]

Chinese and Russian officials are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in the restive American province of Missouri, where ancient communal tensions have boiled over into full-blown violence.

“We must use all means at our disposal to end the violence and restore calm to the region,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments to an emergency United Nations Security Council session on the America crisis.

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“”we can and should support moderate forces who can bring stability to America””

America has been roiled by political instability and protests in recent years, which analysts warn can create fertile ground for extremists.


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http://www.vox.com/2014/8/15/6005587/ferguson-satire-another-country-russia-china

[Brigid]

1. This is brilliant!

Funny and scary at the same time.

"Regional delicacy known as barbeque"
"Disrupt the flow of American beer supplies"

[PatrickforO]

2. Wow. This made the little hairs on the back of my neck rise.

When I read it, I got goosebumps because it's EXACTLY how we would treat Ferguson if it were in another country. Very scary.

Regional crafts such as aerospace? Pretty funny too.

[Brigid]

3. Yep. That's why it's scary too.

[Moostache]

4. Imagine the reaction we would have if any other nuclear power behaved as we do...

This country is so chock full of hypocrites that it makes me puke.

[Hekate]

5. Yes indeed. Sometimes we should hold a mirror up to ourselves. nt

[Fumesucker]

6. It depends on whether the nation were an "ally" or not

If it were happening in Iran or Russia this is quite correct.

Saudi Arabia not so much.

[Stargazer09]

7. Very interesting

Scary, too. We take a lot for granted here.

[ctsnowman]

8. Excellent!

[mainer]

9. I was just in Istanbul where everyone was talking about Ferguson

And their take was eerily similar to this piece. "What is wrong with America?" "Are you worried about stability?"

Even the regular Turk on the street was well-informed about events in Missouri.

[polynomial]

10. A tragic setting

For decades Black murder on Black murder is common in Chicago. Drive by local gangs shooting the innocent. But no demonstrations and no sit in and no burning or looting.

Yet when young Black man is argued as not respecting a fundamental basic arrest, reacting in disrespect seems to be happening for the public theater.

A reoccurrence that of showing defiance by the Black person is agued expressing physical or verbal public civil disobedience with a certain synchronicity related to other controversies of similar events that results in homicide. The media is now common ground for drawn out drama of crisis and disrespect.

This tragic event is basic to past issues of race difference in identity with White police is troubling and tiring.

What is striking is outside viewers are making a point about this so called phenomena, the race bias factor. Or is American law too easy.

Outside observations could very well help with the issue that is festering for a long time, now showing signs of a new evolved affirmative action. Black young men martyr themselves in the foot-steps of MLK.

The American mainstream media especially MSNBC illustrates years of the jail cell shows that illustrate that dark side of civil disobedience.

However, MSNBC as other media is not showing ways to resolve issues by community investment.

That article in obvious showing that the American young Black person who feigns some desirable publicly approved attitude, like obey simple arrest procedure can freak out under pressure common in the Black community can convolute natural order to selfish chaos.

There are those Blacks whose private life could be questionable, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

It is so simple sometime when I hear conversations that a White person cannot say the word nigger yet I have witnessed Blacks calling each other nigger. A tragic setting for any culture to have to endure.

[IDemo]

11. I think we could be seeing the start of Mizzou Spring n/t

[HereSince1628]

12. Do you see the unrest surviving winter to get to spring?

Or just breaking out again following some, unfortunately likely, racially biased police atrocity in the new year?

Does it find a new center? Is the Liberty Square of such a Mizzou Spring really in Ferguson or does it relocate to Gateway Arch or some other state?