What good is economic justice, if I don't have the social justice to access and keep it?

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68. Try reading: Slavery By Another Name

You will see the parallels from what happened over a century ago with what is STILL happening today. See Ferguson and the money machine they had/have going.

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*The 6 most damning findings from the DOJ's report on racism in the city of Ferguson*

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has released the horrifying details of its investigation of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and municipal courts system, finding that officials in the St. Louis suburb routinely violated the constitutional rights of African-American residents.

The report is the result of an investigation that began in September 2014, after former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. The failure to arrest Wilson — and the militarized response to protestors who demanded an indictment — set off months of demonstrations against racial disparities in police use of force and the criminal justice system.

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To get to the bottom of the distrust between the FPD and black Ferguson residents that provided a backdrop for the protests, Justice Department representatives conducted hundreds of interviews with city and court officials, observed Ferguson Municipal Court proceedings, attended community meetings, and scoured police records and data on police searches, stops, and arrests to collect the data.

The damning evidence uncovered leaves no question that the distrust and allegations of police racism were accurate. Here are the report's most outrageous findings:

Read More: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/4/8149337/doj-ferguson-report-police-racism
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Please do not tell me that is does not exist today, because it most certainly does.

******you mentioned civil rights?*****

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Ferguson Shows Blacks Live in a Different America
Black Americans still live in a country with different rules, different dangers, and different rewards.

Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Back then, it was reasonable to expect that by 2014, America would be a fully integrated nation in which equality prevailed. But as the events in Ferguson, Mo., dramatize, the country still resembles what a presidential commission described in 1968: "two societies, one black, one white— separate and unequal."

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Even after the major civil rights laws were passed, blacks faced discrimination by real estate agents and lenders. Just two years ago, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $175 million to settle a Justice Department complaint that it pushed black homebuyers into subprime mortgages even when they qualified for regular loans.

There is persistent racial bias in hiring. A 2009 study in the American Sociological Review found that "black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than white applicants just released from prison." Criminal justice is rigged: Blacks make up 14 percent of drug users but more than a third of those imprisoned on drug charges.

Many whites doubt that discrimination matters anymore because there are laws against it and because they personally don't engage in it. They see that many blacks have ascended to the middle class. They assume what holds blacks down are pathologies rampant in many poor minority neighborhoods: criminality and family breakdown.

More: http://reason.com/archives/2014/08/18/ferguson-shows-blacks-live-in-a-differen