Carol Anderson, writing in the Washington Post, gets it right. What's dominating America now, whether you are willing to believe it or not, is not "black rage." It's white rage. No mitigating factors, no "excuse me, that's going too far." The style is different but the rage is considerably more brutal and unapologetic.
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.
Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn’t have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard. Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations. ...WaPo
Ignoble? Pure racism, larded with greed and igorance.
There's something about those six bullets. Six and probably more. That's not policing. That's unreasoning fury.
