Napolitano is completely right when he says, “The city of Ferguson, Missouri, is now burned into our consciousness in a way that few other places are.” What people don’t
realize is that civil disturbances with the police have been occurring in
America for decades. How many people associate LA with Rodney King instead of
Hollywood or Newark with John Weerd Smith compared to the number of people that
associate Ferguson with Michael Brown and Darren Wilson?
Napolitano also blames the county prosecutor for being “afraid
to take responsibility”, a governor MIA, and Obama “who sounds like he wants to
federalize police” for the failure in Ferguson. He also blames the local police force for making "its minority populace feel vulnerable". Racial
tensions are so inherently ingrained into our minds that it will take the contributions of ALL Americans and at ALL levels of government to get rid of it once and for all.
Sure we can protest police brutality, but who is in charge
of the police? Who punishes them? Who gives them their paycheck? Who gives them
billions of dollars in grants? Do protest, do advocate for change, do open your
minds because some action is better than NO action, but be sure to focus on the
roots of the problems and as Napolitano asks,”Can we use the tragedy of Ferguson to
achieve a freedom-generated, nonracial consensus on all this?”
‘Murica
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