Here come the usual looting and rioting doesn't solve anything comments.

[NYC_SKP]

181. Thank you. I'm thinking that solutions lay with coalitions.

Taking a bigger world view here, 10,000 feet up looking at all the shit that's going on.

The powerful few benefit from "identity politics" where groups focus so intently on their groups problems that they rarely come together.

"Ferguson? Yeah sure, but I want my health plan deductible to go down!" or something.

And, check this out, the worse it gets for, in this case, blacks and the medically infirm, the MORE FOCUSED they become, and kind of blind to the others' concerns.

BUT, we're all basically in the same war but with different battles: state and federal governments are too corrupt to do anything about Ferguson, or to fight the insurance industry on our behalf.

What I'd like to see, and I think it can be done, is for EVERYONE to get together and take this to the damn people who need to answer for it.

The sick, the unemployed, victims of bank foreclosures and police brutality, all together.

This can be an all-city thing or it can be at the state capitals or, dare I say, Washington DC.

United we stand, Mary.

And I stand with you and with Freddie and with Michael.

We won't shut up, and we won't sit down.