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Sun Aug 24, 2014, 06:32 AM Aug 2014

It’s not Fergustan: Ferguson is what America Looks Like

http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/fergustan-ferguson-america.html

It’s not Fergustan: Ferguson is what America Looks Like
By contributors | Aug. 23, 2014
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People around the world have watched Ferguson, Missouri in disbelief that what they’re seeing is taking place in the United States. But Ferguson is actually quite American. AJ+ host Dena Takruri explains how the city is a microcosm of the systemic racial inequality that persists in the U.S, from poverty and unemployment to the police targeting of African-American communities.



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