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In reply to the discussion: If Darren Wilson is innocent, why are so many white people preparing for war? [View all]Anansi1171
(793 posts)When you hear the same rhetorical claims of white supremacists on messages boards and social media as are popularly portrayed; the picture starts to come together. An intractable column of hate and social violence in this country and an industry of policing blacks(and others of non-privileged status) that goes back to slave overseers and militias and extends to the white-supremicist influence in cop culture in places like Ferguson, MO.
Eugene "Bull" Conner is the symbol for white reactionary law enforcement violence against blacks in the age of segregation; perhaps Prosecutor Bob McCulloch will be the symbol of white reactionary law enforcement in the age of covert racism. This man has by any objective legal standard acted largely in the dark. There has been no sunlight, no transparency into this case since Brown's body lay lifeless in the street.
As evident, for some, this is all quite alright and the system should be trusted to deliver justice for Mike Brown despite the weight of history showing it will do just the opposite.
It is what it is, I guess.