evaversteeg:A line of roses lines the street where Michael...

evaversteeg:

A line of roses lines the street where Michael Brown was shot

Do you remember Michael Brown? Or Ferguson? The whole uprising after a black young man was shot ten times for a very minor crime? That his body was left at the spot for hours after that? That research showed that more black people are unnecessarily killed by police officers? How Brown’s mother told a newsreporter: “Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate? Do you know how many black me...