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Cold hard truth
Charlottesville teaches me what I got wrong about Ferguson. This is America.
“This is not the new normal,” wrote one person. “This is the U.S. Don’t try to change the historical narrative.”
“New normal?” wrote another. “Ain’t nothing new here!”
It was Washington University associate professor Jason Purnell who really opened my eyes.
“America isn’t better than this,” Purnell wrote. “America is this. America CAN be better than this if we finally face that fact.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-charlottesville-teaches-me-what-i-got-wrong-about-.ferguson/article_129a8335-4831-5670-a9db-201a530ce5dc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
