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Ferguson has elections

Amy Goodman is correct about one thing in her Aug. 22 article. The 1857 Dred Scott decision will be an eternal stain on the U.S. Supreme Court’s record. To deny an individual’s humanity based upon race or any other criteria is an abomination.

Unfortunately that is the only thing she got right in that article. According to her reporting, Ferguson is a majority black town, yet the mayor, the city council and the school board are white. Hopefully I am not the only person who sees an inconsistency here. She is lamenting the fact that a majority black populace elected a white mayor, city council and school board. A majority racial group elected representatives from a minority racial group. This should be cause for celebration.

From this point she delves into an area of real concern for anyone who cares for justice. She reports there is a demand in Ferguson for the arrest of the policeman involved as well as the removal of a constitutionally elected prosecutor. Any time racial vigilantism is substituted for the process of law and order, civil society becomes a skid mark on the slippery slope to anarchy.

Ken Bogdan

Sagle, Idaho



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