A Symptom of a Greater Sickness: How Ferguson’s Roots Run From Our Schools To The Supreme Court

Virally Suppressed – Muckraking For The Modern World

BY VIRALLY SUPPRESSED on AUGUST 18, 2014 • ( 1 )

There is nothing that I can say about the shooting of Michael Brown that hasn’t been said before by people whose experience affords them a perspective and an authenticity that I lack for the simple reason that I am white. No matter how deeply and ardently I want to empathize with the plight of black and latino and arab Americans who are racially profiled and harassed, I will always fail because I can never know what it’s like not to live with white privilege. 

A Symptom of a Greater Sickness How Ferguson’s Roots Run From Our Schools to the Supreme Court by Thavam