Indeed,
Dr Kings words are very true. A riot is in fact a signal that the war
was lost before the battle started. Rioting is a form of self
destruction as it almost always takes place and victimizes the
neighborhoods most in need of help. No one ever riots in the fancy
neighborhoods where all is fine.
So
with Dr King's words in mind, one must ask one's self, how is it the
situation was/is so hopeless that people would lash out against
themselves-- against their own communities-- in a form of neighborhood suicide
if you will, that does more harm to themselves than anyone else?
And
why have we, as a society, allowed entire neighborhoods, communities
and cities across this great nation to become so depressed, so sick and
so deprived that those communities would choose suicide over life?
Answer
those questions and you'll know the real reasons for what took place in
Ferguson, Missouri and what is taking place all across America today.
Today, Greensboro, North Carolina is the second hungriest city in America. We have a poverty rate of over 21%. We lead the state of North Carolina in unemployment and have a home foreclosure rate of over 12%. But instead of working to solve those problems our leaders do nothing while building downtown performing arts centers our local artists and most of the rest of us can't afford to use. What is Greensboro doing to help the poor? Nothing. What was Ferguson doing to help the poor people of Ferguson? You tell me.
Keep waging your war on the poor communities all across America and as the poor are defeated they too will commit community suicide just as they did in Ferguson. The death of one young man didn't cause the events in Ferguson-- Michael Brown isn't the reason people are rioting. The death of Michael Brown was simple the straw that broke Ferguson's back.
What will be the straw in Greensboro, North Carolina? In any other depressed, poor sick community in America?
You see, that's the problem: you don't know what the straw will be or when it will break. But when it does your community dies with them. And therein lies the flaw in the grand design of those who would have us believe in the giant ponzi scheme called the US Economy.
Will Greensboro be next? Will your community?
