Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Ferguson Demands a New Black Politics by BAR executive editor Glen Ford "Black elected officials and Black cops do not change the essential nature of the Black Mass Incarceration State." Before Michael Brown's bullet riddled body had even been consigned to the ground, disciples of America's miraculous self-healing powers were proclaiming that "change" was already in motion. Liberal punditry, whose ranks always swell when Blacks threaten to abandon the American shipwreck of dreams (and then shrivel back into inconsequentiality once the danger of rebellion has passed), are busily finding reasons to believe that the crisis can be averted through minor retuning of the policing apparatus. |