Michael Brown is Our Story, Ferguson is Our Town, and We Are America
Within the last few days, my social media feed has been inundated with a form rhetoric that is passionate and heartbroken as well as maddening at times. The recent news coming out of Ferguson, Missouri is gut wrenching and reminiscent of the tragedy of Trevon Martin. Here we have a young man, Michael Brown, being stopped by a police officer for jaywalking and the officer cites him for struggling; thus, the officer shoots and kills an unarmed Michael Brown. They then left his body out, uncovered, in the street as it fell for hours. The police seemed to be walking around not knowing what to do and sparking outrage from the community on the dishonorable way they were treating the Brown's body. Those that witnessed the incident were outraged and as those witnesses took it to social media they sparked a mass outcry from the population of Ferguson and eventually the nation. Understandably people began drawing conclusions of racially spurred accusations that have since mounted to racial