Frustration in Ferguson--- 3 Paragraphs From Charles M Blow Hit The Nail Firmly On The Head

[kpete]

MON AUG 18, 2014 AT 02:04 AM PDT
Three Paragraphs From Charles M Blow Hit The Nail Firmly On The Head

If you really want to understand

Yes, there are the disturbingly repetitive and eerily similar circumstances of many cases of unarmed black people being killed by police officers. This reinforces black people’s beliefs — supportable by actual data — that blacks are treated less fairly by the police.

But I submit that this is bigger than that. The frustration we see in Ferguson is about not only the present act of perceived injustice but also the calcifying system of inequity — economic, educational, judicial — drawn largely along racial lines.

In 1951, Langston Hughes began his poem “Harlem” with a question: “What happens to a dream deferred?” Today, I must ask: What happens when one desists from dreaming, when the very exercise feels futile?

MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/opinion/charles-m-blow-frustration-in-ferguson.html?ref=opinion&_r=1http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/18/1322531/-Three-Paragraphs-From-Charles-M-Blow-Hit-The-Nail-Staight-On-The-Head

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Inequality establishes different realities for people.

Imagine Maslow's hierachy adjusted to reflect those socio-economic differences and you will see why some people turn out the way they do.