Nobody here is saying they hate white people, if that's what you're getting at. Few things have bothered me more in the past week and a half than white people trying to make it about them.

Is it possible that people have just become so cynical and fatalistic that when they see somebody who performed a petty crime get killed they think "good" and it has nothing to do with race but just the fact that we've all thrown in the towel?

You need to add "while black" to every item on that list.

Anti-choicers continue to prove that the rights of the unborn are more important to them than the rights of actual humans.

What happens when a white parent has to inform their child who is half black and half white how to move in American society as a minority?

On a side note:

Fantastic statement from Jesse Williams. I'm bi-racial, but can say that I've never really been harassed by the cops in my lifetime. My brothers however? Dudes can't move two feet without a policeman stopping jus to "check-in". This shit is real, and it would be lovely for large parts of the country to open their…

I'm glad he made the point about being treated like a human being. That needs to be in every discussion about Ferguson, Mike Brown, and all the other cases of unarmed black Americans killed by police.
People were slavering for an excuse to blame Mike Brown for his own death. He fought for the gun! He stole cigars! He,…

Not only are we not treated like human beings, black people aren't even treated as well as pets are by their fellow Americans.

You'll find that the people doing the oppressing always want to start the narrative at a convenient part, or always want to start the story in the middle.

Someone over on Gawker also pointed out that his other wounds (to the inner upper arm and upper chest) are places where one would tend to get shot when they're raising their arms to show they don't have a weapon and to be non-threatening.

I hear a lot of "the police are being attacked" with no evidence to back it up. I read a lot of phantom "Molotov cocktails" with no evidence of fire or explosions in the police lines other than the tear gas grenades and flares being launched into the crowd. I read a lot of "shots fired toward police" with no one…

Its not a coincidence that the cops started cracking down tonight. They knew the autopsy report was going to drop and this is a great way to both distract from it and use the few protesters seeking confrontations as a way to build support for the police and their actions. The cops may be heavy handed and just plain…

The earlier reports of shots that prompted tear gas seemed to have been fireworks... this shit is unreal.

Chief Jackson has already demonstrated a propensity to manipulate the evidence to support a specific, self-serving account of events.

I think there's far more trigger-happy cops than there are young black teens willing to instigate physical altercations with police officers. Shoplifting is stupid, but almost everyone does it at some point. I don't see the robbery in question as being indicative of an even more violent criminal-minded person who was…

Due to the extraordinary circumstances

"America needs and is the example to the world for how democracy should be,"

Ummm, no. A big fat, no. Where did this idea of American exceptionalism come from? The world - and it's a very big world out there - is full of democracies, of which the USA is but one. And not exactly a shining example of one either. It's…

So several days of police attacking peaceful protestors gets a yawn from the state, but "a handful of looters" warrants a state of emergency declaration?

I'm of the mindset that PMS removes the bullshit-tolerance all women have, and puts us on dude-level for a few days. Guys rarely put up with shit, and they don't have to justify it with a hormonal imbalance. I like my PMS for that reason - I don't have to pretend to give a shit when I'm just not feeling it. It's…