Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

[applegrove]

Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.

By Carol Anderson, Opinons, Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html?tid=rssfeed

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When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.

Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.

White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House. For every action of African American advancement, there’s a reaction, a backlash.




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[SummerSnow]

1. You hit the nail on the head...k&r

[Uben]

2. I don't think its white rage....

..I think its a bunch of shitty cops on a power trip who are too damned scared or lazy to do their job in the proper fashion. In fact, the whole nation is infected with this scum. They're are some in damned near every city. When the good officers turn a blind eye, they become corrupt by not reporting it. They may act appropriately themselves, but when they let the bad cops skate, they are just as responsible.

[s-cubed]

3. Excellent article! They may also be lousy cops,

but it's more than just lousy cops. People who have enjoyed and feel entitled to being privileged feel threatened. Instead of looking at the real threats to their security, they are falling for the old "let's you and him fight" scam.