From Tim Wise re concerns about violence @ Ferguson

[gollygee]

"If your concerns about violence are limited to property damage and looting, and you have never shed two tears for the history of institutional violence, murder, colonialism, segregation, lynching, genocide and police brutality against peoples of color, your words mean nothing; they mean less than nothing. Your outrage, in such a case is grotesque, an inversion of morality so putrescent as to call into question your capacity for real feeling at all. So long as violence from below is condemned while violence from above is ignored, you can bet that the former will continue--and however unfortunate that may be, it is surely predictable. If you'd like the former to cease, put an end to the latter, and then I promise you, it will."

[JaneyVee]

1. ALWAYS on point.

[gaspee]

2. I don't know how

Black Americans face every day with the odds stacked against them. I would end up in jail for losing my temper and killing someone after I'd been faced with indignity after indignity, day after day.

I really don't know how they do it. I also don't know how anyone, of any race or color, can deny the racism that permeates society.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. I don't know why they would fight, bleed and die for this flag. I hereby spit on it

and revile it.

[roody]

13. I recommend the biography,

Burro Genio, by Victor Villasenor. The title would be Genius Burro or something like that in English. It is a beautiful story that culminates in forgiveness.

[yodermon]

3. That is an awesome quote, is there a link?

on edit: just found it on his facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Wise/140254320968

[Schema Thing]

5. kicking for clarity

[Avalux]

6. Spot on. K&R. n/t

[UglyGreed]

7. Agree 1000%

[niyad]

8. k and r for the truth

[savalez]

9. KR

[Dustlawyer]

10. Thanks for putting it in its proper perspective. They planned this to happen this way for just this

reason!

[handmade34]

11. yup...

truth

[freshwest]

12. Tim Wise is always worth reading. More words to change the world.