re: Thoughts on Ferguson - A Black Pastor's Perspective

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message will fall upon deaf ears.

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I think it does because there is a large, vocal element whose identity and self-interest require a victim mentality to be firmly rooted in the Black community. Coupled with a deeply-seated ability to tolerate Black on Black violence, children shot in drive-bys, gang violence, shattered families, drug abuse rampant in neighborhoods, and so forth. Let a violent crime happen at the street corner where people are milling all around, and later ask. No one will have seen a thing. This is that community giving its tacit approval to things like these continuing. It is no White person's fault. The blame rests squarely on those peoples' silence. Any such victimization is self-induced. No one is willing to be accountable or to hold others accountable - much easier to blame the rich, the White, the po-pos, etc. than to deal with the dirt swept continually under the collective Black rug by Black people and their White liberal slave master.