We HAVE to TALK about racism and police brutality

[KingCharlemagne]

64. "Relationship" can mean so many things in this context. At a bare minimum, it's probably

safe to conclude that the owners and CEOs of these media corporations contribute copious amounts of cash to the various politicos' campaign coffers. But clearly the owners of private media and the politicians have the same interest: protecting the interests of private property above and before all else. I don't have to like it -- and I do not -- but I have to admit the reality of it.

Don't know much about Nixon but what I've seen of him so far strikes me as incompetent and wussy, unwilling to go to the mat with McCulloch over his farcical (mis) handling of the Grand Jury hearing the Michael Brown case. The result is that St. Louis County and now Missouri has become the laughingstock of the nation when discussing issues around justice, policing or race. Oh as well as earning us our first citation by Amnesty International in its history for human rights abuses.

I don't know whether Nixon is a 'racist,' so I'll leave it to current Missourians to bat that one around.

The silence of the national Democratic Party around Ferguson and related matters is almost deafening, isn't it? Ironic, too, given that African Americans have been one of the, if not the, most loyal constituencies of the Democratic Party for the past 75 years. However, Nixon, McCulloch and Senator McCaskill are all Democrats, so not sure whether the national party's silence is from fear of creating local schisms. Again, I'll have to leave that consideration to current Missourians.