re: Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

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No, I don't understand illogical actions. When you have a legitimate cause to protest for, you protest, and the message is taken much more seriously. When you use a case like this (and Trayvon for that matter), as your shining example of injustice, people do not take it seriously, and it hurts your cause further because it is illogical. Burning down buildings in the name of a criminal does not help your cause, I'm sorry.

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This ^^^ x 1,000! Well said...and the sad thing is that when these instances are PROVEN to have been invalid, the vast majority looking for headlines and trouble continue to pretend their initial knee-jerk reaction was spot on accurate as if rational people don't see how ridiculous their actions are. That does a tremendous amount of damage to overall race relations and drowns out the voices of those when the wolf actually shows up for a feast.

Many of us whites posting here would be glad to stand with the black community arm in arm if there was a truly racially based provocative incident thrown into the spotlight but damn, don't ask me to get righteously riled up when the issue is trumped up.