After Ferguson, When Will We Listen?
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/after-ferguson-when-will-we-listen/?comments#permid=13442147:13464300
Unfortunately, African-American leaders, like Mr. Walton, seem less interested in factual discussions to solve undeniable instances of racial bias in policing and legal matters, but rather to promote a hysteria about out-of-control, racially bigoted, thuggish police, intent on "killing innocent 18 year old black children" - certainly Michael Brown was not "innocent" and he was not "a child".
The greater problem for poor and minority communities is better police protection from violent crimes committed by other poor and minority people - vilifying police officers who risk their lives every day to do just that is counterproductive, but it seems to be the current "politically correct" approach.
How many poor black "children" are killed by other black "children", as opposed to by police officers? Where are black leaders like Mr. Walton in finding solutions for that problem?
The riots instigated in Ferguson by this irrational witch hunt, leading to burning and looting, hurt primarily others in the black community. And the rhetoric of the black leaders (nor that of the mainstream media, like CNN) did nothing to try and cool tempers, on the contrary, did everything to inflame tempers (Michael Brown was a innocent 18 year old "child"). Just as, now that the evidence and the considered judgement of the Grand Jury is in, Mr. Walton's ridiculous cherry picking of individual words ("it" and "demon") from the testimony serves only to further inflame.
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