It's Time To Wake Up To The Myth Of A 'Post-Racial America'

It's Time To Wake Up To The Myth Of A 'Post-Racial America'
FERGUSON, MO - OCTOBER 10 : Protestors hold an American flag upside down, universal sign for distress, outside the Ferguson Police Station on October 10, 2014 in Ferguson, United States. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
FERGUSON, MO - OCTOBER 10 : Protestors hold an American flag upside down, universal sign for distress, outside the Ferguson Police Station on October 10, 2014 in Ferguson, United States. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Black lives matter. That’s the referendum we’ve heard over and over again on Twitter in the days leading up to a grand jury verdict in Ferguson, Mo., where police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. On Monday evening, that jury gave Twitter the middle finger by dismissing the charges against Wilson, even though a recent CNN poll suggests that the public at large supports some sort of punishment for Wilson. Only 21 percent of Americans support the jury’s decision to let Wilson walk away a free man; 32 percent believe he should be found guilty of murder.

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