November 25, 2014 - Last night the decision of the grand jury in Ferguson, MO to not seek charges against the white police office who fatally shot a young un-armed black man set off protests, riots and violence across the country. While this shooting incident has sparked outrage across the nation, especially in the black community, the reasons for the chaos following the grand jury's announcement has been a long time coming. And it will KEEP coming.
The US has SYSTEMIC problems. This is simpy a reaction to many of those problems. We have an institutional system of division here. And until people of all political views understand that and begin to root out the causes for it, Ferguson will just the beginning.
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