Ferguson Feels Like Forever

What more can possibly be said?    

Less than a century ago, the Michael Browns, Trayvon Martins, Eric Garners, and Oscar Grants were being lynched, six thousand of them alone during Jim Crow. A heroic Ida Wells tried to tell the story to the few who were even paying attention. Abolitionists had their printing presses burned. A bloody war ended the "peculiar institution" but it was reinstated as Jim Crow by the force of backlash.