QOTD: Michael Shaw at BagNews
by digby
He examines the various news photos and headlines coming out of Ferguson over the past few days. He juxtaposes the shrill heds about looting with various other pictures of young African American men engaged in protests. And he says this:
[T]hese acts and images to do more than express the release of anger over one more senseless killing — fueled by the invisible crisis in America of a two-tiered economic system, the rage over institutional racism and the persistent harassment of black youth on town and city sidewalks by increasingly militarized police departments — is still another textbook example of America’s racial and class polarization. The looting photos should not be fodder for finger wagging or utterances of “what do you expect?” Rather, as transient reactions to the same impoverished and marginalizing conditions that spawn these meager “convenience” franchises in the first place, acts of violence — sensationalized as they are — are little more than one more (albeit shocking) expression in a constellation of of cause-and-effect.
Click over to look at the pictures and the faces. They illustrate his point forcefully.
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