Ferguson
05/12/2014
- Opinión
Like a fever, the news broke, but, unlike a fever, it brought no relief.
For the news, from the perspective of the national Black community wasn’t good.
The 12-member grand jury in Ferguson, investigating the killing of a Black teenager, Mike Brown, returned with ‘no true bill’: legalese for no charges; no indictment.
No case.
Despite the fact that Brown was unarmed.
No charge.
The name Ferguson joins an ancient line of place-names of pain, loss and Black death. Places like Birmingham, Tulsa, Selma, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, and now—Ferguson.
It will have a meaning all its own.
For young people, many of whom are new to activism, who felt compelled to hit the streets in protest of unbridled police power – and legalized impunity, the challenge will be how to continue; how to fight on – and even what the fight is.
Some, broken-hearted, will flee this ugly episode, and try (perhaps unsuccessfully) to seal such a memory away.
Others will grow in radicalism, convinced that this case is the very epitome of racist injustice.
But, Ferguson may prove a turning point; a point in time when the nation chose the wrong road ahead.
-© ‘14maj
https://www.alainet.org/en/active/79285?language=en
Del mismo autor
- Una Nación en Guerra -- ¡Contra Sí Misma! 10/07/2017
- A Nation at War -- With Itself! 10/07/2017
- Un rayo de esperanza en Palestina 19/06/2017
- Sunshine in palestine 19/06/2017
- La caída 09/06/2017
- The fall 09/06/2017
- Las mujeres marchan contra Washington 07/02/2017
- Women march against Washington 07/02/2017
- ¿Qué significa todo esto? 08/01/2017
- What it all means 08/01/2017
