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Ferguson is an American tragedy that highlights cruelly the divisions and inequity that permeates this nation founded on principles of equality, democracy and freedom. The polarisation between the haves and the have-nots in places such as this is stark, and while poverty has created a disempowering dependency on the benevolence of the state, it increases disaffection too. Ferguson is one town among many like it, and the backlash to the killing of Michael Brown could precipitate major unrest in many States in time to come.
In other countries, too, there is disillusionment with and mistrust of the political elite, and the seething challenges brought about through uncontrolled immigration along with societies divided by class and wealth are creating resentment and insecurity among the majority of the population. It takes just one event, like the one in Ferguson, to spark a major fire, and one that could burn out of control.
Fire, however, is cleansing, and from its ashes comes a new beginning and a new order. It could be that a political conflagration in America, and other countries also, results in a chastened recognition of the need for a rebalanced, fairer society where everyone genuinely is equal to each other. Ferguson has lost much in recent days and weeks, but the repercussions of her hurts may be the seeds of hope, for all of us.
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G'day, Claire!
The lack of indictment by the grand jury convened in the Michael Brown case in the State of Missouri, in one sense, was to be expected due to the racism endemic to the midwestern U.S. President Obama has not been silent on issues of race throughout his presidency, and his current Attorney General (until a replacement has been found), Eric Holder, is being asked to press charges against the officer who killed Mr. Brown under suspicious circumstances. Moreover, left-leaning political groups are basically baying for blood by demanding *peaceful* action and have been putting the affairs of the police and municipal authorities under intense scrutiny so as to prevent any cover-ups of what's been happening there.
In other words, it's not entirely a case of despair; rather, it's one of people fighting back, of speaking truth to power. Think in terms of Sophocles' play *Antigone* (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31/31-h/31-h.htm#linkantigone - or in Greek at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26731/26731-h/26731-h.htm) and what's going on in that part of eastern Missouri begins to make sense.
Ah, the power of myth!
Thank you for the perspective of an informed "insider", with which I agree completely. Indeed, it is not just a case of total despair, but to look for the hope within and resulting. It helps, too, to remember that "all's the world's a stage", indeed.