We can look at the history of what happens when black people arm themselves. Look at the Black Panthers in Oakland in the 60's and 70's. Ronald Raygun, while he was governor proposed and signed gun control legislation, the Mulford Act. We don't have to speculate what the result would be if black people armed…

Yes. If you want to know whether we think of Blacks as Americans in the same was that we think of whites as American all you have to do is a simple thought experiment: Picture a man with a concealed weapon. Now picture him being white. Why does he have a concealed weapon? Because he's a gun-loving flag-waving…

And that Boston bomber survived. He was on the run, a known criminal killing and injuring hundreds yet he was not mown down in the streets. I wonder what would have happened if he was black. I wonder.

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

So angry, so empty, so hopeless.

He's not wrong, friends.

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

Jesus Christ.

Devastating.

Excellent piece Greg...wow.

Pulp Fiction. After a date, we immediately ran out and got milkshakes. The girl couldn't talk me into doing H tho. No fucking way, I don't care how sexy what'sherface was in the 90s.

Keep yourself safe, and thank you for doing the work the rest of us wish we could be doing right now.

Wow, you were accused of "adding to the fire" by handing out water. It must be opposite day.

Hang in there. The STL area has serious race and class issues. The way-too-many small cities issue does not help, nor the city-county divide.

I was accosted today for handing out water bottles to protesters, two of the officers (on different occasions), asked if there was actual water in my bottles. Of course there was, I had just bought it at the nearby grocery store, I even showed him my receipt. He just kind of brushed my explanation off and said "just…

I myself am white. There were of about maybe 400-500 people (it's Monday morning, most people are working), of which 25% were white, plus another 5% white for journalists, and of course the 100% white police force. I walked past every cop I could, each was white.

"You took my son away from me," [Mike Brown's mother] told the television news station KMOV. "Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate? You know how many black men graduate? Not many. Because you bring them down to this type of level, where they feel like they don't got nothing to…

There's no conclusion jumping here, just reporting. An unarmed young man was gunned down from 35 feet away.