Two police officers are shot in Ferguson

[jtuck004]

79. You can't outgun them. That is correct. But you can outthink, out maneurver, win.

Violence is a tactic, and sometimes the one that gets things moving in the right direction. Non-violence is another. Many tactics have their place.

Ask the Danes at the Free Schools, the people who own Mondragan, the Indians who were freed from colonialism by the German's attacks on the English. They faced down murderous tyrants and armies, not just the local Barneys and the taxpayers who support them.

&quot Bloomberg) -- St. Louis County police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol are taking over security for protests in Ferguson after two officers were shot in the city today."

All the had were excusees for not doing this over a year ago when it was clear to all the white folk what was going on, when it was just the black folks being imprisoned unfairly, used as a source of revenue, killed? THAT would have been the moral thing to do.

Fact remains, it didn't happen until this violence occurred. Am I arguing for violence? No. But I am not one to discard tools until what I am building is finished, either.

And even if it is not a tactic, anyone who thinks this isn't a natural outgrowth of oppression is naive. It is going to happen, and we have to deal with it. I see it as a natural outgrowth, engineered by the oppression of the past few hundred years.

Regardless, I am not condescending enough to think I know better than the people who have to live under this oppression how they should act. The white folks there have been doing that for way too long, and I prefer not to stand with them. Your mileage may vary.