Chauncey wrote an EXCELLENT diary titled The 'Niggerization' of Michael Brown by the Ferguson Police Department and the Right-Wing Media. If you haven't read it, please go check it out. It's stunning.
Chauncy writes, "Michael Brown is dead because the police are empowered by a good percentage of the white American public to kill black and brown people preemptively and with extreme prejudice."
I admit that after reading all this truth, I had to wait a bit and let my blood pressure go down before I could really digest it. I've always known this, but seeing it in writing really hits home. So I began to ask myself what do pictures of Michael Brown flipping the bird, the store video of him shoplifting, and him doing or saying other unflattering things have to do with this murder case? It's a question every American needs to ask themselves.
And my answer is: