ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月10日 06時23分
David Morrison is 7 years old and carries the scars of Ferguson’s upheaval. A veteran protester, he has fled gunshots and tear gas, marched, waved signs and played dead on the asphalt in years of activism that unspooled after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. This is the inheritance of the children in Ferguson, Missouri, where a generation has grown up amid uneven progress in the aftermath of a national reckoning. David’s mother, Aminah Ali, got involved in a citizen-journalism project after the killing of Michael Brown and took David along to protests when he was a preschooler. But one night she began to notice the toll on her son. He jolts awake from nightmares on the living-room couch where he often sleeps, and then cracks open her bedroom door to reassure himself she is still there. “I overexposed him,” she said. “I just felt like, my son needs to be out here. He needs to be exposed to what the police are doing to us. But he was too young.” Many of Ferguson’s young residents threw themselves into student activism, while others pulled away from the rising movement they watched their parents join. And although the city has made some visible changes to its government and criminal justice system, some residents say Ferguson is not moving quickly or aggressively enough to undo long-running racial inequities. Check out our Instagram story and visit the link in our bio to read more. @jaredsoares took this photo.
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nicholaiiiiiiii
@av_bd ofc I don’t think that cop woke up that morning thinking “i’m gonna go kill black people”. It’s not like if you line up a black man and a white man next to each other, the racist cop will shoot the black man. Racism doesn’t work like that. Racism is so entrenched in our society that often it’s subconscious, and institutional racism and racial profiling are very present in law enforcement and have been documented for a long time. Maybe you are ignorant of this but there is lots of research and academic studies to back it up. For example black people and other minorities are much more likely to be pulled over by the police for an investigative stop, black neighborhoods are highly over policed, black people are much more likely to be arrested for simple marijuana possession despite white people shown to be much more likely to use marijuana, etc etc. This is not a trick of the media, these are solid facts. You brush aside the details of the shooting, but why before we’re you so hung up on the details that he wrestled the cop and stole from a store earlier? you are exactly like the police, you want to brush the entire thing under the rug saying it’s not a matter of race but don’t want to confront the larger issue. we need to ask ourselves, if michael brown was white would he still be alive? would the police officer be so willing to use deadly force against a white man equally as much as a black man if deadly force isn’t needed? we don’t definitively know the answer but given everything we know about institutional racism in law enforcement we have a pretty good idea..
maine_islands
Many of the comments below see life in black and white. I propose that these people are equally oppressed by the pervasive violence across America and around the world in trying to simplify cause and effect by blaming victims, giving up their humanity and empathy, and supporting strong arm and dismissive tactics. Climate change is the undeniable motherload of destruction that will take out people regardless of their race, ethnic, religious, or economic condition. Though it will tend to hurt poorer people and countries more. Our Midwest and Southwest will run out of water as underground aquifers are depleted. A condition that has been known since the Dust Bowl days. Americans are particularly insensitive to nature, the planet and God. Many of the greatest abusers call themselves Evangelical Christians.
av_bd
@tyler______lee No they dont they just have a different version of events. Lets compromise by saying that if the situation is as @nicholaiiiiiiii describes, do you think its just to use deadly force? And @nicholaiiiiiiii , If the situation was as tyler lee described, do you think its just to use deadly force?
Its completely useless to argue on what happened, when all that smoke clears we most often agree and if we disagree it becomes an argument of ideals.
Now lets put this to rest thank you
gabrielamaucher
My first comment ever on a ‘political’ post: I hope for Ms Ali that she will find a good way for David and herself to position her family in something that matters to all of us. It must be very hard to take a stand and to teach her child the horrible facts of reality and still protect David as a very young human. I will never understand why the killing by police officers of an unarmed person can be accepted by so many people in the so called ‘first country in the world’!
av_bd
@nicholaiiiiiiii regardless of what happened I highly doubt it was about race. Its a big issue when the media and politicians use a tragedy to advance their agenda. Do you really think the “racist cop” woke up that morning, thinking: “I want my career that I worked ten years for to end, my name ruined, and be the most hunted man in america” Try again people. Please try not to be dumb and fall for the medias tricks. That includes fox and cnn BY the way.
ooo_shes_crafty
@realadultconversation never said it was. But protesting is patriotic. I'm sure at the time she thought she was doing the right thing. She obviously, by her own admission, realized he was too young. But apparently you're the authority on child rearing, so you better get started with judging every parent on the planet. Thats a big task. How graciously you take that mantle.
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