Originally Posted By: King Brown
....It's a curse the country will bear, just as Vietnam's scar remains. Black lives improved at the point of federal bayonets enforcing their constitutional rights. Nothing was given to blacks willingly. Remember Washington, Detroit and Los Angeles burning? Were they terrorists or freedom fighters?

The US is the better for it.


If we're so post racial, why'd the prez send a racial activist to take charge in ferguson. Fifty percent of teen to mid thirties blacks die by murder, some ninety plus percent of those at the hands of other blacks. Isn't it a tad uncomfortable that you'd think we're the better for it.