Quote:I actually DIDN'T want 0bama to say a word.  It's a local issue, and his input into the situation serves no purpose other than to pay more lip service. 

 

I'm curious.  What exactly have the blacks in Ferguson, MO been through that makes their situation unique in any way that justifies rioting and looting?  For that matter, what exactly have the blacks in St. Louis and other areas NOT in Ferguson who are looting in solidarity in their communities been through to justify it?

 

Middle-aged white man hour? Bigot much?

Not that it justifies violence or looting but it is quite clear that all over the nation blacks and other minorities are disproportionately profiled, targeted for arrest, and given harsher prison sentences then whites. I think it's easy to see how there could be widespread frustration over such a hopeless situation. Armed with feeling like that it's easy to see how a few people in a group could get a mob driven into a fervor, in my opinion. 

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