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It has raised a lot of eyebrows around the world too (#Twitter).
Regular readers know that Dredd Blog has been watching the rise of the warrior cops for years (Will The Military Become The Police?, 2, 3, 4, 5), and regular readers know that this series was dealing with the issue well before the Ferguson injustices were exposed (Symbolic Racism: A Look At The Science).
Regular readers also know that Dredd Blog ties these decadent dynamics into a coup of American culture (A Tale of Coup Cities, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12).
A coup that the world can see, whether Americans want to or not.
This is in accord with the historical norm that all societies, so far, either committed suicide (the vast majority), or have been murdered (The Deceit Business - 3).
The seemingly incoherent developments in Ferguson show that racism is seething below the surface, and simmering there in incoherent hatred.
Wrong-wing white Americans have not been shown the way to eradicate racism via reasoned enlightenment, so they have chosen to try to deny it by deceiving themselves that it does not exist.
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This is easier for them when much of that right-wing culture denies science, embraces fundamentalism and ignorance, and is not aware of nor fond of what human rights are really about.
The W Direction that America has taken guarantees the loss of all freedoms for the great majority, which we call the 99%.
It is also guaranteeing the "freedom to oppress" for a deceived minority that we call the 1%.
"Freedom" is becoming synonymous with "no accountability."
Racism, warmongering, oppression, and self-serving have always been in the cultural amygdala of the 1% who were there when slavery was sprinkled with holy water in the original constitution.
The previous post in this series is here.