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1. Protesters flood streets across U.S. as Ferguson dismay spreads coast to coast

   (CNN) — The sparks of outrage that started in Ferguson, Missouri, have ignited a firestorm of protests across the country.

   But the national furor isn’t just about one grand jury’s decision on one shooting case. To many protesters, the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown — and the lack of an indictment for the officer who shot him — are symbolic of racial injustice in America.

   “I think that it’s important for people to know that the decision not to indict (Officer) Darren Wilson means that the system does not value black lives,” one protester marching through Los Angeles told CNN.

   “I think that it means that a cop can kill a black or brown kid when he’s defenseless and unarmed and not get charged. I think that it means that we either fight back and stand up and end police terrorism.”

   More than 170 protests sprouted up across the country Tuesday. Some crowds blocked bridges, tunnels and major highways. But unlike the violence that erupted in Ferguson on Monday night, most of the demonstrations were peaceful.

   In New York, a protesters spanning an array of races and ages filled Times Square with their hands up, some chanting, “Don’t shoot.” In Washington, a crowd including prep school students lay silently on a sidewalk, as if dead. And in Boston, even jail inmates joined in the protest silently from a window.

   http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/national-ferguson-demonstrations/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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2. The tragedy facing the blacks in America is fostered by sensationalism. Facts are either hidden or twisted to serve political purposes or selfish interests.
   The protesters have not been told that Wilson could not be indicted because forensic evidence and eye witness accounts, including that of Johnson who was with ‘big Mike’ when the incident happened, corroborated his statement.
   Before encountering the officer, both teens had robbed a convenience store and had smoked pot, evidence of which was found in Micheal’s system at the autopsy. The victim behaved irrationally when asked to stay off the center of the road and had struggled for the gun with the policeman.
   Sensational headlines, such as this,only serve to stoke the fire.
   Obama would not be president if part of the ‘77% who do not want Wilson to be indicted’ had not voted for him. That means such conclusions are more fiction than fact. If a white president had received 95% of white votes as Obama did from black voters, there would have been charges of racism.
   It will take a lot of explaining to convince one that a multiracial grand jury exhibited bias. There has been more tolerance when the shoe is on the other foot. Even the notorious kkk still hold their racist protests with little violence. All they do is to pour out racist invectives.
   What have arson and looting got to do with the decision of a grand jury? I read of a case where a confessed black murderer was acquitted by an all black jury for killing a white person. The jury decided that the prosecution’s witnesses were not credible. This, in spite of the fact that all the ingredients for conviction were present: the perpetrator was caught, he confessed to the crime, the weapon was recovered and the body was there. Yet he was acquitted and the other leg that wore the shoe did nothing.
   During the latest round of madness in Ferguson, it is reported that the victim’s stepfather was heard inciting the mob to “BURN DOWN THIS B–TH”. He did not explain what he meant. But one of the structured burnt down is his church whose pastor has, characteristically, blamed imaginary white supremacists without providing the slightest evidence. Should such inciter not be charged with causing a breach of the peace?
   The black community deserves more than incitement to violence. It needs to tackle the school drop out rate which is astronomical. It needs better schools so that the children will have a bright and successful future just as Obama’s daughters who attend elite private schools. It needs to tackle the 72.5% rate of babies being born out of wedlock to parents who need to be parented themselves. Compared to 17% among Asian American children born to single parents, the prospects of the black Americans appear bleak.
   Something concrete must of necessity be done. Bill Cosby did not mince words when he blamed the selfish ‘leaders’ for the plight of the blacks in his address to the NAACP during the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education in 2004. He said that these professional leaders have failed the community. Incitement to racial hatred encourages the notion of victim-hood.
   Instead of being encouraged to utilize his potentials, he is told not to bother because the system owes him and must therefore take care of him through food-stamps and provide free medical care. The results are damning. They include obesity which leads to other complicated medical conditions.
   This ensures that the black man remains perpetually reliant on big government. For political reasons it is expedient for him to remain shackled to the party that makes him lack self confidence.

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3. Namlee in spite of all that verbage, your message is loud and clear. i see you.

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4. abu ladd,
   I see you, too.

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