It’s 5:15 AM. I’ve been trying to think of something to say about police shooting 17 year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson MO since about 9 PM. The AP headline is: Missouri crowd after shooting: ‘Kill the police’ but what stood out to me was how quickly the police presented a massive response involving officers from over 16 police department with military-style armored vehicles.
I’m glad for Twitter, to see and hear from those present. But in my Twitter stream, since Israel’s Gaza assault, there’s a steady trickle of unhinged ethnic hatred. And there’s always propaganda. It’s too much.
I fried my brain this past week on Web sites trying to learn more about how the subject of immigration gets shaped. I clicked on some of those ridiculous links on the side columns of Web sites. Dang! The racism. Oh yeah, I know, I know, but Damn it to hell.
On Twitter I heard from @AntonioFrench that rose petals and candles have been placed in the street where Michael Brown died. I heard voices of humanity and compassion too.
All I have are tears for Michael Brown, who if he’d not been shot would have attended college classes for the first on Monday. And too many tears for the violence shredding us to pieces as we deny the humanity of our fellow human beings.