"Differential Percentages are the whole cause of this mess...."

Really? I thought it had to do with individuals taking actions based on decisions they may, or may not have given much thought. Your comment implies a mixed 'package' of 'social' causes which define individuality out of men.

the "genes" are really in the pudding of the governing Constitution. There was no entitlement in that document.

St. Louis has a long history of productive residents fleeing neighborhoods because of thug and looter mentality. St. Louis is your perfect storm of horrible socialist policy, cramming individuals into poorly built projects in areas where the jobs aren't and paying them to live at just barely above subsistence levels. Some figure out how to break out of it. It starts by finishing school. Why aren't they finishing school? because they can be a gangsta and be somebody. where are their dads? who is raising them? Ever seen Pinocchio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSRroPfX...

Khalling, I think that sfdi is one of "those" who have stereotypical but incorrect views of the south (I grew up there). Now living in Portland OR, I still experience that same anti-Southern bias with my liberal I-know-better-than-you friends.

Bull. I lived in St. Louis for many years. I ran a fabric store in adjacent Hazelwood. I traveled to Ferguson often to a sister store. Blue collar working class neighborhood. I will agree there are a bunch of loitering, out of work 20 somethings without a plan or clue. There are plenty of jobs available...if they were hungry. They're not hungry, the govt feeds them and educates them and pays for their emergencies. They are surly because they are lost. I looked up jobs on Craigslist for the area. PLENTY. Are they willing to work night shifts? No? not hungry. just angry and to feed a false pride they blame anyone and everyone for their lost boy life. Where are their dads? Now they are the absent dads. btw, I see no color here. My statements are for all of that generation who choose to not gain knowledge in virtuous areas or involve themselves in virtuous production. Plantation?! Oh brother!

EXACTLY! And we know that those who are stirring the coals of this smoldering fire are the very ones who profit from racial disharmony.

Differential Percentages are the whole cause of this mess, Fergusson is like a pre-Civil War plantation in that matter. When that atmosphere is mixed with high unemployment and poverty you have explosive content, and fiery tensions rise. Much of the instigation is of outside origin, of seventy-four arrests only four were residents of the town.

Percentages be damned. If one is interested in justice and whether the law was followed, or the law was broken, then only the facts of the case should be considered—not anyone's race. You would think that anyone complaining about racism would not be interested in fueling it into the future with divisive speech...a point those doing so, would do well to heed.

If there is corruption in the local legal system, then it should be investigated and dealt with harshly. On the other hand, who stands to gain from the HYPE surrounding this incident? ...reasonable people, of all races, that want to see the fair application of the law?

Yes, that is politically true, any governance should be roughly equivalent to the populace governed.
In Fergusson, I suspect that Gov. Nixon chose politics over common sense and allowed the imbalance to remain unfettered.
When you look at that school board, with a High School graduation rate of less than 49 percent and the majority of the businesses are owned by non-residents . . . well???

So much for that whole colorblind society thing...

Unfortunately, in this mess, both sides have an initial point. When one compares the percentages of the ethnicity populations of the city of Fergusson and its governance [i.e. the police, the government and the failing school system] there is such marked disparity as to invite trouble.

I concur completely.

I certainly hope you're right. Don't trust the DOJ to be impartial nor follow the Constitution or the rule of law. Especially not when it involves a black man and a white man. Holder has shown, as in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, he is incapable of being impartial in those incidents. Who does the FBI answer to? I think it is the DOJ and the prez. I'm glad you have faith in them, I don't. Maybe it's just me.

FBI-CSIA's will call a spade a spade, they don't play Politics. They are the ones that started the Fast and Furious Investigation when they investigated the Killing of that BP Officer in Arizona three years back.

"Meanwhile Lerner...", precisely. This is what this administration does. First they change the subject and get involved in any new conflict to take the attention away from the ones they want to go away. And, their racism investigations only go in the conventional direction, remember the two black thugs in front of the voting place? No investigation needed there. What happened in Benghazi? Where was Obama and where was Hillary? Who is responsible for letting those people fend for themselves and die? If no one gave an order to stand down, who is responsible for not giving an order to stand up? Are we satisfied with, what's the name of that allowing guns to go over the border thing? You know what I mean? How much more of this are we going to swallow?

Does this answer your question?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...

This is not a Federal matter. I don't remember anything in the Constitution that allows the FG to intrude into State and local matters.

This is to give Holder a reason to stir up the racial pot. He's no better than Jackson or Sharpton. Actually he is worse because ha has more power than either of them. I keep feeling as if I have somehow slipped into an alternate universe where good is bad and bad is worse.

How about the one that hit him right between the eyes. Four other bullets hit him in the arm.

If it's racism to say that a criminal was black, why isn't it racism to say that a victim was? (Or, for that matter that the 'criminal' was white?)