Distinguish Between "White People".

Sadly, the ones whose ancestors profitted off of slavery, the elite who truly have privilege in this nation?  They're sitting safely, laughing their asses off at the protests in Ferguson, I'm sure.

No street justice there...

Pitting working-class blacks against their working-class white neighbors, and crapping in their own backyards.  Wouldn't you be glad, if you were one of the elites, to see the release of misdirected anger?  They'll never touch you if they can't organize and articulate their community needs.

All of the anger, none of the true change,
and more and more ethnic whites being pushed via the "white people" tag, into the welcoming arms of the Republicans.

Job well done!

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In the antebellum American South--someone just bought a person's grandparent.

 (I wonder if Mr. Coates understands, it's likely his father's personal choices, and not some old white slave owner from hundreds of years ago, who shaped the son's family life today.  Nobody split and sold your family members away, Ta-Nehisi.  Your father studded multiple women simultaneously, so your family was never an intact unit to begin with, and there was less emphasis on putting the kids' futures and needs first.  Your own father fell prey to the needs of the flesh, like the old slaveowners of yore, and that need defined the limitations of your upbringing, your fractured family, and all the opportunities that other fathers worked and sacrificed to give their children that you allegedly missed out on because of "racism".)

Where are the smart black leaders, who urge people to get out of the streets, and use their brains in fighting back.  Where is the roster of young black people, who have been identified as ideal candidates for police officer training in Ferguson?  I know the black leaders have been working behind the scenes to help their own qualify for the policing jobs in their own communities, right?

If you don't want the working-class whites doing these jobs, and there is ample job protection these days (and fear not: nobody is going to seize your wife and child and put them up on the auction block, if that's your fear trigger), why not step up?

Who are the candidates in Ferguson and St. Louis County who are running to replace the white political class?  When is the next election, and where are they?

How much of the money raised off of plastering Mike Brown's names on t-shirt sales will go toward paying a young person's college tuition?  Anything?  A scholarship to HVAC school in Michael Brown's name is too much to ask?

Men like Mr. Coates will get rich off of black people in Feguson, and return to rub shoulders with the white elites.  He'll summer in France, tour the country giving speeches, and claim the mantle of black leadership.  Already, he is pooh-poohing the progress Dr. King made, perhaps because that man, like his own father, was alleged to have fallen prey to the sins of the flesh too.  The women of the civil rights movement -- the Coretta Scott King's -- sadly, never were seen as equals.

Last night, Coates was on a roll, even invoked the memories of the 4 little black girls killed before church services that bloody Sunday...  I'm sure his new elite white friends will nod sympathetically.  "Poor blacks, we've got to do all we can to help men like Mr. Coates overcome..."

So much easier than living life independently as a free man, and taking responsibility for your own actions and well-defined family.  Now, what's the latest superhero flick, and the hot video game for Christmas or Kwaanza?  (write about what you know...)

Tamed, man.
Easily tamed.