How a Century of Racist Policies Made Ferguson Into a Pocket of Concentrated Despair

[KingCharlemagne]

7. This country was founded on two great sins\crimes: theft of land from its indigenous

inhabitants and theft of life and labor from forcibly imported African slaves.

Neither one of these sins has been fully expiated yet and, instead, those who have profited from these grand thefts have instead projected their guilt onto the victims of the theft with such psycho-rhetorical strategies as 'culture of poverty' and 'black-on-black violence'

What is needed instead is a comprehensive program of reparations -- call it 'socio-economic-based affirmative action,' if you will -- to redistribute this benighted country's wealth from its current unlawful possessors to the progeny of its victims who, as you so eloquently point out, continue to suffer the effects of the thefts visited upon their ancestors.