With every TV team that packs up and leaves, slowly but surely, Michael Brown and the questions he raised while dying on Canfield Drive are in the process of being tucked away in the attic of the American conscience.
The problem is not a society formed of whites and blacks, but a society that puts its white members to work in the police force and its black members to work in delinquency.
It was a difficult foreign policy message that the president, forced onto the defensive, tried to sell to the men and few women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.