Justice for Michael Brown event in Columbia MO

[loyalsister]

The NAACP, clergy members, and Grass Root Organizing put this event together. It was a traditional protest\rally. 400 + sang and chanted for justice.

A homemade sign with the words “No Racism” rested against 7-year-old Teeney Franck’s legs as she waited with her aunt, Suzan Franck, for a rally to begin supporting justice in the death of Michael Brown.

At Grant Elementary School, Teeney said, her class is studying the Civil Rights movement. “I have three chapter books about it,” she said. “What has our country done in the past? Terrible things.”

At the Thursday rally, Teeney and an estimated 400 others — black and white, young, old and middle-aged — were told at the Boone County Courthouse Plaza that the struggle she is studying is not history. Chants of “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” joined with the classic civil rights spirituals “We Shall Overcome” and “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” as the struggle of the past was updated for the present.

The story didn't mention that Teeny Franck is a white girl. As were most of the attendees, thus the event reflected the general population. That's the way it should be. It doesn't require an apology, but the majority must object to the system that generates privilege.

“This fear is not one-sided,” she said. “It is shared by both the oppressed and the racists. The racists fear that they will find out the truth — that they do live in privilege and they are exempt from the cruelty that people of color always face… And they use this fear to assassinate our character, assassinate our culture and assassinate our people.”

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/rally-for-brown-brings-hundreds-together-in-downtown-columbia/article_96e644eb-6000-5bcc-ae87-e2c5cd436248.html

[loyalsister]

1. Big thanks to this MO attorney for explaining this and the difference between grand jury process

and vigorous prosecution.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152167870921685&set=vb.560171684&type=2&theater