'Family' feeling at Ferguson PD last night, to near calamity - Protestor's perspective on shootings

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54. I know about the issue of the voting

But then I read that because such a high percentage of people were victims of what was the "trap-the-black-to-fund-the government" schtick that they had going there, with the revolving door of court appearances due to citations, tickets, fines, penalties, and outstanding warrants - THAT was apparently keeping people away from polling sites in fear of being arrested and hauled off to jail for the outstanding debts, etc. This is a perspective that didn't even cross my mind until I saw it mentioned and makes sense based on what the DOJ uncovered there... It's FEAR.

You should ask why the state of Mississippi, despite a population that is some 39% black, is a deep red state? It's the same pathos. I consider it PTSD, where you have masses of people so demoralized and beaten down and fearful, they just stop fighting, tune out, and sometimes act out.

And it seems you miss the whole point of a "movement". There was no literal comparison of Rosa Parks to Michael Brown. The comparison IS, that people felt aggrieved and rose up to fight it. What happened in Ferguson wasn't just "Michael Brown". It was a culmination of the harassment that people suffered 24/7/365. If you can't see what was uncovered by the DOJ regarding the systemic racism that infested this town, in a manner essentially no different than what infested Montgomery, AL., then I take offense at your dismissal of the core of the problem.