Quick: name two black people in the last five years who were shot and killed?
One comes easy. Michael Brown. How could we not know Ferguson’s gentle giant?
Brown was not, however, one of those 9 percent of the Missouri total under eighteen years of age. Their names have already been lost to history.
As much attention as has been paid to Brown’s death, almost none has been paid to the hundreds who died more conventionally.
Al Sharpton has marched for none of them.
And CNN has kept its distance from all of them. Continue reading
– Wakarusa got in on the act. But Waka didn’t roll out its entire lineup, just a little taste.
