Grand jury reaches decision in Ferguson case (Announcement Monday night)

[Mr. Smith]

Congratulations Ferguson, officially the mos racially ed up city since 50's Money, Mississippi or '60's Philadelphia, Mississippi.

[Mr. Smith]

@NewYork: I've never heard something more naive.

If all whites were made extinct, some other "race" will take the top and that will just lead to other resentments and other Fergusons.

@Ray: Yes, but Oscar Grant  wasn't running and may or may not have been in a fight. Not by much,just a string, but that case was grayer in terms of who was in the wrong.

@ChairmanSanchez: It's Oakland

[Mr. Smith]

@Reagan: Really? You're using the "well I have friends that are black" excuse? Really?

If you use that excuse, then yeah, you kinda are racist.

To be fair, who isn't? We're all prejudiced people. But the difference between an anti-racist and a racist is the one who fights those impulses all the time in the pursuit of fairness and actual merit, and one who doesn't for whatever reasons.

And simply trying to say "Well I have friends that are black" as an end all is giving up the fight and in fact very ignorant.

[Mr. Smith]

@SLC: Pfft you're not a leftist of a religion pigeonholed to the right.

@BerkeleyButcher, Reaganfan: Unfortunately...yes. Otherwise Strom Thurmond and a good number of slave owners would not be racists because of relations with black women.