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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Time: ‘Riots are a necessary part of the evolution of society’
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
More like going back to the Stone Age.
When a police officer shoots a young, unarmed black man in the streets,
then does not face indictment, anger in the community is inevitable. It’s
what we do with that anger that counts. In such a case, is rioting so wrong?
Riots are a necessary part of the evolution of society. Unfortunately,
we do not live in a universal utopia where people have the basic human
rights they deserve simply for existing, and until we get there, the
legitimate frustration, sorrow and pain of the marginalized voices will boil
over, spilling out into our streets. As “normal” citizens watch the
events of Ferguson unfurl on their television screens and Twitter feeds,
there is a lot of head shaking, finger pointing, and privileged explanation
going on.
Wait, what? What on earth is privileged explanation? But hey, she’s on a
roll.
We wish to seclude the incident and the people involved. To separate it
from our history as a nation, to dehumanize the change agents because of
their bad and sometimes violent decisions—because if we can separate the
underlying racial tensions that clearly exist in our country from the
looting and rioting of select individuals, we can continue to ignore the
problem.
Obama’s America, where sometimes violent agents of change are just
misunderstood by the privileged few. Get with the program, people!
Read the rest if you have the stomach. It devolves into a misinformed screed
about the Tea Party, of course. |
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