Talking About Racism To conservatives, and In Federal Court

THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME to roost in Ferguson, Missouri, which is a town you've heard of. Put another way, what goes around is coming around. The feds have finally lost patience, and filed suit in federal court. The racism in Ferguson is just too obvious, and can no longer be tolerated. Too bad Michael Brown had to die to prove it. Or, maybe the cops had no choice but to kill him, as our conservative colleagues tend to say. Either way, you can't ignore the black folks going to jail and the white folks getting probation for the same crimes, or the black colored traffic tickets, or the police dogs - evidently, its pretty horrible, and everybody in town knows about it, and has for a very long time. Racism is rampant in Ferguson, Missouri, and you wonder; is it even remotely possible that racism is out and about in other locales across the fruited plain in freedom's land? Maybe, but don't try telling that to a good American conservative, to whom all mention of possible racism is America is an intrusion of big government, or trouble making for the sake of profit, or other crazy things. The conservative attitude seems to be; get the government out of our citizen's lives, and let our communities decide for themselves, by their own choices and actions, privately, how to deal with issues such as race. The only problem with this is that you end up with a racist society, because, well, the white race is full of racists. So maybe a few basic racial equality laws, and their enforcement, is not altogether evil, although, to talk to to conservatives, you might think so.