tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post998380042258752753..comments2024-01-16T08:28:12.494-08:00Comments on I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: On Ferguson and Separate Worldsaimaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-60362478489892270532015-02-11T10:12:00.934-08:002015-02-11T10:12:00.934-08:00Hi Juliagrey. Nice to see you here.Hi Juliagrey. Nice to see you here.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-40241467517188283412015-02-11T10:05:34.210-08:002015-02-11T10:05:34.210-08:00It wasn't too long for ME to read!
Thanks.It wasn't too long for ME to read! <br /><br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-4043853933794407772014-12-03T17:36:20.376-08:002014-12-03T17:36:20.376-08:00Hey Yas, nice of you to pop by. On reading this p...Hey Yas, nice of you to pop by. On reading this post over I apologize for how dull it is, compared to how vital the issue remains. Basically we have separate worlds and separate experiences and different communities are unable to communicate with each other because they are ending up with different information streams and different understandings. But its not the case that "both sides do it" or that there is some equivalence between the two sides in this case. One side, the liberal side, has a grasp of a real issue and is offering real solutions to a real problem. The other side is manufacturing an issue where none exists--I'm thinking about the crazy woman who was "Witness 40" before the Ferguson Grand Jury. I can't link to it here but it was up at Kos. She has intruded herself into the case in order to testify that the shooting was justified. And she really thinks it is justified because she remembers being chastised for jay walking when she was a girl by a police officer and simply accepting his right to threaten to spank her, and being ordered by her family to respect his authority. In her reading of the incident (which she falsley claims to have seen) Michael Brown is an instance of something terrible and terrifying: a decline in the ability of authorities to be obeyed instantaneously. Her slavish devotion to the idea of authority and her mourning for a golden age in which nothing bad could happen because people did what they were told is so divorced from reality that she can't even grasp that shooting someone for jay walking is absurd. This is a totalizing viewpoint, a paranoid viewpoint, which the left/African American viewers don't share even when they call the police to account. There's no golden age to be recaptured--but there's no golden age ahead either. There is just a reasonable, adult, attempt to figure out the problem and fix it.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-49181018909081279162014-12-03T15:56:30.333-08:002014-12-03T15:56:30.333-08:00Lovely. I was thinking about twitter right from th...Lovely. I was thinking about twitter right from the top and composing a comment that would have been a lot like your conclusion except you wrote it better. Sometimes lines of communications are open with the other side, last fall I was helping rednecks think about health insurance and I think some may actually have done so. But now it's just frozen.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-49740450342928412322014-12-01T15:27:13.032-08:002014-12-01T15:27:13.032-08:00The part that bugs me the most is all those who kn...The part that bugs me the most is all those who know perfectly well that the cops are lying but support them anyhow. It's very tribal, facts be damned, just yell the loudest.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-67305933057995022792014-12-01T12:30:22.740-08:002014-12-01T12:30:22.740-08:00I'm having trouble entering to edit this so I ...I'm having trouble entering to edit this so I thought I'd put this link here:<br /><br />http://gawker.com/my-vassar-college-faculty-id-makes-everything-ok-1664133077<br /><br />Its a link to a great essay by Kiese Laymon about the different worlds/different experiences of black and white, even within a supposedly liberal academic context.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.com