This is so disturbing! #Ferguson: Black vs White

[jwirr]

19. I may be out of the mainstream here in a rural area that is very liberal but I do not think that

pole would look that way here in NE MN. But then we have a very small black population compared with St. Louis County.

What I wonder is "Why St. Louis County?" Is it because of the Civil War era? Because of the kind of mini civil war right there in MO when they fought neighbor against neighbor not south against north. If I am correct that state never chose a side to belong with in that war. It is almost as if they never ended slavery or jim crow in Ferguson MO. Has there ever been a time when they tried to get along? When they worked toward something better?

What have their churches been doing during all of this? I know that the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church is headquartered in St. Louis MO. And I know that some of the clergy that helped in the streets during the protests were from this large church body. But having been raised in this church I also know that they do not get very involved in issues like racism. How much of the blame for this ongoing treatment of the black part of the community can be laid at the doors of this and other churches in the area.

It bothers me that this is happening in the 20th century as if they were still in the south before the war. Where being black really was a crime. Where education has not reached most people. Is there anyone out there that understands why some of the country has seemed to grow up while this little section of the world has lagged behind because they want to treat a part of the population as somehow inferior?

In watching what was going on during the entire protest I and the rest of the country learned what was happening to one race in this area. Now I want to know why. I want to know what makes this area tick? If we an understand this one area maybe we can help to stop this from happening again in Ferguson MO and across the nation. Too many people have died at the hands of the police or people like George Zimmerman all across the country. It has to stop for the sake of our country. We cannot be half free. It does not work.