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[cheetahmaster]

"I've just spent nearly a week back home in exurban Atlanta, and I regret to report that the events in and in reaction to Ferguson have brought back (at least in some of the older white folks I talked with) nasty and openly racist attitudes I haven't heard expressed in so unguarded a manner since the 1970s. The polling we've all seen about

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[selki]

"when to a shockingly overwhelming degree white people believed all that civil rights stuff was a fabrication of outside agitators and lying yankee reporters inciting the normally placid if potentially dangerous local helots to “act ugly,” richly earning whatever hellish retaliatory violence that might ensue. "

So much bad going on right now. :(

I assume you've heard about http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/12/01/3597677/german-vigils-beaten-harassers/ -- 23-Year-Old Woman Beaten To Death After Defending Teen Girls From Harassment

Sorry for the gloom, hope today is better.