Wednesday, November 26, 2014

a moment of clarity.

words. 

"What could Obama have said to calm things down in Ferguson?

...there were no words that would have diffused people’s frustration, fear, and rage. There was nothing that could be said from the White House, by this president or any other, that would have made everything okay.

Healing is not going to come from words, and it won’t be delivered from above by the president. It will come from the creation of a system that produces justice, a system where police treat citizens with respect, where power is distributed equitably, where people can have a modicum of faith that their lives and those of their children are considered to have value."

THE WASHINGTON POST: Barack Obama, Ferguson, and racial wounds unhealed

EARLIER:

the next day. 

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