On Monday August 25, St. Louis, Missouri marked the funeral of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager who was shot by a Caucasian policeman on Aug. 9 in the suburb of Ferguson. Brown’s father has released a statement with a plea to keep the funeral proceedings from turning into a mass protest.
We remind you that according to the police, Brown was shot after he refused to obey the orders of a cop and attacked him. After the altercation, suspicions arose that the young man apparently robbed a convenience store just minutes before he was shot. However, witnesses of the murder confirm that the boy was just walking down the sidewalk when the policemen trained their weapons on him. He put his hands in the air, but nevertheless took some bullets.
Citizens began mass protests—vandalism, essentially—which led that unfortunate town practically to bankruptcy as a result. As always, they were protesting against racial discrimination and excessive police violence against blacks. The wave of demonstrations has flowed across America. It has even gone so far as to create a rift in the National Guard. Attorney General Eric Holder paid a visit to Ferguson, and President Obama himself addressed the nation to call for peace. However, atrocities from the demonstrators and the law enforcement officers, who are using weapons to threaten the public and jailing everyone from the innocent to the guilty and even journalists, have exceeded all expectations. As a result, the police shot yet another black teen in front of a TV camera just a few days later. Then someone from the African-American community went to the police station to deal with the chief.
Neither the authorities nor the protesters stressed the fact that the Brown case is not an isolated incident, but just another in a chain of similar events. Everyone clearly understands that America has grown an entire generation of deadbeats who demand a carefree life—and live permanently outside the law—as an apology for an era of slave owners and racial segregation.
It appears that the New World will continue to capitalize on the not-so-distant past when some group oppressed another. Fighter for the rights of the dark skinned, Reverend Jesse Jackson was more open: “Ferguson is a cancer cell of a huge tumor and the incident in this city foreshadows similar crises in many American cities.”*
What could be more candid than the facts? More than 65 percent of Ferguson’s citizens are African-American, more than half of the able-bodied population cannot work and doesn’t want to learn how.
*Editor’s Note: This quote, accurately translated, could not be verified.
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