Ferguson verdict after 5 tonight

[backspur]

If I felt I was in a hopeless situation where I lived, I would move. No one is making anyone live where they don't want to. There are educational opportunities available based on ethnicity and Affirmative Action programs available to help the disenfranchised become productive members of society.

I applaud the folks of Ferguson. They are not running away from a hopeless situation. They are making a stand to improve their situation and community. You know, by burning and looting it.

 

[TedKennedy]

I applaud the folks of Ferguson. They are not running away from a hopeless situation. They are making a stand to improve their situation and community. You know, by burning and looting it.

I agree 100%. Let's take up a collection and send them gas money.

When and if the buildings up there get rebuilt, I wonder how many of those "disenfranchised" folks will be lining up to get on the construction crews?

 

[excat]

Dang settle down Bro your gonna blow a gasket or even a hemi.....Yeah its a Hemi...8)

Lol, I was just making a funny. Fail.

 

[twoguns?]

me too ,i got it... 8)

 

[excat]

me too ,i got it... 8)

Word...bro.

 

[Jon3830]

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/11...r-apartment-complex-where-michael-brown-died/

 

[Biggsly]

I'll try some links out for you Biggsly:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_946717bd-3c77-55b4-8772-003e4c2c7ceb.html (Just another weekend in North county, before these recent protests)
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/11/st_louis_homicides_north_city_shot.php (North City, which borders North County, from 2013 but helps enumerate the homicide count)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...tml_9ffe4219-05aa-526d-92a1-3661d6b66842.html (filter 2014, Homicide, and then just punch some of the addresses in Google Maps and see where they tend to plot in the metro area... north verus south, east, or west)


Deep history in redlining:
http://www.stlmag.com/Mapping-the-Divide/ (note this is from 2008!)
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/08/14/3471237/ferguson-housing-segregation/ (a more recent look)
http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/ (this was on Netflix last I checked. It in north City, just SE of Ferguson and Florissant)


I spend most of my time in JeffCo when I'm in the area, as that's where my inlaws live. It's a whole other different kind of world from North County. More homogenous, more rural, more meth

Most of my family live in Jeffco. I Lived in Jeffco. The Meth is getting really bad down around the Hillsboro area. Damn hillbillies.

 

[inactive]

But Bob's Drive In is pretty good!

 

[Biggsly]

But Bob's Drive In is pretty good!

I Can't believe they burned down Red's.