re: Report: Autopsy analysis shows Michael Brown may have gone for Wilson’s gun

I mean, if you wanna go there...

I'm a rational person and I can tell you that looting and pillaging your own community doesn't help out anyone in your neighborhood.

But I'm also rational enough to separate idiots and side shows from the real issue at hand--the investigation into Mike Browns death.

The looting shouldn't have anything to do with the facts of the case, because it's not involved in the case. If you're a smart and reasonable person, you should be able to separate that too, and not let that cloud your judgment of MB...It was some
Croonies (whether wrong or right) outward and emotional response to the current events

But call me crazy, but when I saw the looting, besides noticing the destruction of a neighborhood and crooks taking advantage of a kids death, I noticed community frustration and anguish...sadness and hopelessness. I think we highly undervalue the psychological framework of black people in American and the lenses through which they see the world. far too many times we tell them "I get it, but stop victimizing yourself..here's what you need to do [insert work hard, go to school, etc.].." instead of sitting down with them to hear why they feel the way they do.

I liken the mindset to that of a rape victim that has repeatedly been told that her stories of abuse are fallacious and that it is her fault for her abuse. This woman endured years of physical, emotional, sexual, and psychological abuse only to be let physically freed by her abuser.

Now you have a battered woman that can't trust anyone and is hypersenitized to the world around her. She wants to be heard and felt, not reduced and blamed.