Ferguson Protesters Take Lead in TIME’s Person of the Year Poll

[IDemo]

Source: Time

Ferguson protestors have gained the lead in TIME’s Person of the Year poll, with seven days to go in the voting.

Unrest in Ferguson and around the country focused attention on race and policing, helping to lift Ferguson protestors into first place in the TIME reader poll with 10.7% of the vote. Thousands of demonstrators marched in solidarity with the family of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot by the police, disrupting Black Friday shopping in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Seattle and other cities.

Protests cropped up all across the United States in the wake of a grand jury’s decision in Ferguson Monday not to indict the white police officer who fatally shot Brown.

Narendra Modi, the newly elected Indian prime minister, stands at 10% in the polls. As the leader of the largest democracy in the world, Modi has raised high hopes among Indians that he can invigorate the country’s economy and cut bureaucratic red tape that has slowed development in India.

Read more: http://time.com/3610243/ferguson-protesters-person-of-the-year/

[mainstreetonce]

1. I would go for

The Victims

[Live and Learn]

2. They are the victims. Who are these victims you want to vote for?

I have a bad feeling about your post.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. I do love that this country finally seems to be paying attention , or most of us anyway

[calimary]

9. Welcome to DU, NoJusticeNoPeace!

Glad you're here! That same thing makes me feel a little bit more encouraged. It's about time. I saw this photo...

[IMG][/IMG]

...and realized it really hit home for me. As a woman, I feel that same way - about a woman's right to choose. I MYSELF cannot believe I still have to protest that shit, too.

[easychoice]

11. Do you know the source of that photo?

I would like to find the original publisher or photographer.

[calimary]

12. I don't. Unfortunately. And I've used it several times. It just sums things up for me in a way

unlike any other photos I've seen lately. I'm with that girl. I CANNOT BELIEVE I, too, still have to protest this shit. LOTS of different kinds of "this shit" too. Seems like there's more of it every day.

This was just one of MANY different photos of the reaction to Michael Brown's murder since August. But this one just struck me. Hard.

[mainstreetonce]

5. I meant

Instead of naming Brown,all similar victims should be included.

[Live and Learn]

6. I think the protests are really about all of the victims not just Brown.

But the votes are meant to be about those facilitating change and that would be the protestors not the deceased.

[robinlynne]

13. That IS the point. The people in the streets represent all people past, present, and future.

It is the human race which suffers. It is democracy which suffers. I'm not being eloquent, but the protests represent ALL of us. Which is why it is such a great choice! I was personally too lazy to go downtown and protest, but I admire and thank the people who are doing it, for all of us.
or, another way to say it would be: Michael Brown IS all of us.

[Live and Learn]

3. Well, it looks like the protests have gotten some attention, after all. nt

[NYC_SKP]

7. Kim Kardashian and Hillary Clinton are not fairing well.

I voted for Ferguson Protestors, they have 80% approving with a yes vote.

[mahannah]

8. Time magazine is worthless.

[valerief]

10. So if the Ferguson protestors have taken the lead, Time will give it to Chuck Todd.

Or some other asshole.

[jmowreader]

14. Considering what happened in November and who caused it...

...Time's Person of the Year, the person or persons who "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year," simply MUST be the Koch Brothers. Time picked thugs in 1938-39, 1942, 1957, 1965, 1971-72, 1979-80, 1983, 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2007, so they're overdue to put a real scumbag on the cover.