The Right’s Vile Ferguson Ploy
Conspiracy or not, I’m seeing many of my otherwise friends on Facebook wholeheartedly buying into the belief that “the problem in Ferguson is the black residents looters” and not racial apartheid or the actual murder itself.
From the very beginning, before St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch had uttered the first word of his defensive and dissembling speech, the fix was in. The conspiracy this time was not to protect Officer Darren Wilson from standing trial for the killing of Michael Brown, though that was certainly related. This time, the conspiracy was to organize the announcement of Wilson’s exoneration in as provocative a way possible.
Read more at Alternet.