03-13-2015, 03:36 PM
^ I'm listening to the people who live in the community tell me why they're speaking out (then and now) and what they're after. And, I'm listening to you tell me why they're speaking out and what they're after. I am listening to it all, and I'm putting more weight where I feel it belongs.
I'd like to see the residents of Ferguson living in a community where abuse of power and discrimination by police against citizens occurs much less frequently in the future than it apparently does today. There are shit-stirring violent assholes in the community there now and there will be shit-stirring violent assholes in the community there 10 years from now. That's a given, not a prediction, IMO. Hopefully, they'll stand out a whole lot more because there will be fewer such residents and fewer police officers in that batch of bad apples.
You might not think the world will be a better place with less violence, less discrimination, and fewer unwarranted incarcerations of US citizens if the changes aren't in your backyard and don't affect YOU, Gunnar, on a personal level. I disagree. Sue me.
I'd like to see the residents of Ferguson living in a community where abuse of power and discrimination by police against citizens occurs much less frequently in the future than it apparently does today. There are shit-stirring violent assholes in the community there now and there will be shit-stirring violent assholes in the community there 10 years from now. That's a given, not a prediction, IMO. Hopefully, they'll stand out a whole lot more because there will be fewer such residents and fewer police officers in that batch of bad apples.
You might not think the world will be a better place with less violence, less discrimination, and fewer unwarranted incarcerations of US citizens if the changes aren't in your backyard and don't affect YOU, Gunnar, on a personal level. I disagree. Sue me.