I will be interested in reading why one police officer was not indited. With witnesses describing wrong doing, an indictment was to follow.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/ferguson-michael-brown-shooting-witnesses/
Two men, shocked at what they saw, describe an unarmed teenager with his hands up in the air as he’s gunned down by a police officer.
My hands are not up in the air and I am not mouthing a ‘what’ in confusion when I read some replies where online posters state certain folks act like victims and only want new t.v.s. I am not surprised. When the Jim Crow Museum has video footage of white folks, specifically a female speaking in one instance, changing her tone to indicate a sneering response about how they had it coming to them for being lynched, I know who has had past representation and who has not.
Before my time, segregation came about in Chicago because some had political representation and some did not. Proof follows. Rainbow’s End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics Steven P. Erie
As Milton Rakove has observed, Daley expected his administration "to recognize political realities in Chicago and to be sensitive to the built-in relationships among city agencies, the ward organizations, and voters."43 In Chicago, the party ruled the bureaucracy, and the mayor ruled the party.
Middle-class whites demanded that machines supply more than low taxes and homeowner services. As the northern cities filled with blacks and Hispanics, whites also demanded the preservation of white neighborhoods and continued control over such “culture-transmitting” institutions as the schools. White hegemony, not divisbile benefits, increasingly served as the machine’s chief attraction for the ethnic middle class.44
In Chicago, housing and the schools served as the twin litmus tests for the white voters. The Chicago Housing Authority represented a key machine mechanism for maintaining racial residential segregation–and the white vote. The Housing Authority practiced racial discrimination in both public housing site selection and tenant assignment. In particular, the agency had to choose whether to build low-density projects on vacant land in white neighborhoods or high-density projects on cleared slummed sites. The extension of heavily black housing projects into white neighborhoods threatened the machine’s traditional ethnic constituency. As the white ward bosses rose in opposition to scattered-site projects, the agency turned to building inner-city high rise projects. Segregated public housing projects were not the only weapons the machine used to maintain white neighborhoods.
I am thankful for the Civil Rights I have and I read up on who’s who.
Representation does not come about because many are sick of listening to sideliners insist those who seek representation are only asking for special treatment and only want publicity or a new t.v.
