Racial divisions still require full attentionPosted in Articles, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2014-12-05 21:35Z by Steven |
Racial divisions still require full attention
The Daily News Journal
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2014-12-01
Editorial Board
Harpers Ferry…Montgomery…Little Rock…Birmingham…Selma…Ferguson…
Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a “post-racial” era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.
While the initial focus of demonstrations in Ferguson was a white police office’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, what is at issue now appears to be the entire scope of racial divisions in this country since its founding.
The decision of a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown has shown further the racial divisions in this country.
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