AdmiralMemo wrote:So, if something like this were to have happened in Vancouver instead of Ferguson, I'm assuming that you would be perfectly OK with someone burning down your house in the name of protesting. Goodbye game collection. Goodbye Transformers. All in the name of... I'm not even sure what.
Don't get me wrong. I love my stuff. If my stuff were burned or destroyed, I would be very upset.
But it's still just stuff.
In the eyes of the protestors this is a fight for survival. For acknowledgement that black lives matter. For acknowledgement that life is more valuable than stuff.
AdmiralMemo wrote:Yes, he was 18. He was legally an adult. He could have voted. He could have enlisted in the armed services. Had things turned out differently, he would have been tried as an adult for his robbery of the store. "Kid" and "child" are the same thing. There's no difference. I'm not even sure why you're bringing your own age into this. Are you saying that anyone younger than you is a "kid" perchance?[/b{ That would make [b]you a "kid" to me, since I'm 32. Should I treat you as a "kid"?
Regarding the bolded line: no. Obviously not. However. Michael brown was a little over half my age, and still a teenager. And I still remember what I was like at that age. And while, yes, I too was legally "an adult", I sure didn't feel like one, and I sure wouldn't call myself one in retrospect. That was the age I graduated from high school at.
I was a kid.
So was he.
AdmiralMemo wrote:That, I do agree with, which is why I said that Robert McCulloch was the one who really is to blame for most of this.
You're trying to place blame on an individual for a systemic problem. McCulloch is simply the most recent example of failure to serve the community, in a long line of failures to serve this community, and others like it, throughout the nation, and throughout modern history.
McCulloch will be chastised by the community for his failure (to the extent that the community has power to chastise him, of which they have little) but he isn't, and frankly shouldn't be the target of this outrage. He is a symptom. Not the disease.
-m