America; Badly Needing Reforming

THERE IS A TOWN in Arkansas named "Lincoln", and I used to wonder why anyone in Arkansas would name a town after Lincoln. I found out why; the folks who founded the town were black. Now, its all white. I reckon whitey, over the years, just sort of gradually moved in, and perhaps inadvertently at first just kind of drove the African-Americans out. Ferguson , Missouri, on the other hand, was most assuredly founded by Euro-Americans, but now it is at least half black. In a town of twenty one thousand people, half or most black, the entire police force is white. That catches your attention. That don't look like America. You would think that over the years and months, enough qualified black police officers would be available, and that the city would deliberately hire them, just to look like America, and to conform to modern standards of ethnic equality. Your typical average white American conservative is going to denounce all the fuss and talk of racism in this tragedy, and will accuse the race card of being played. But the race card done got played a long time ago, through two hundred fitty years of slavery in America, yo, two hundred an' fitty... and another hundred of segregation, grotesque inequality, intolerance, hatred, and violence. We now see yet another echo of that. How could you expect less? Let's not play the race card, let's play the, oh, let's see, um, economic inequality card, or the corporate oligarchy card. Lest we forget, the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, like everything else in America, is a direct result of the American political, economic, and social systems, which, from all appearances, badly need reforming.