#REPOST “I used to think the role our region would play post Ferguson, was creating a new blueprint for justice and black empowerment. I saw the potential. I was wrong. St. Louis did create a new blueprint though: what not to do. St. Louis will go down as a case study, the poster city of how leaders made a bad situation worse, exacerbated the region’s decline, widened the racial divide and riff between the community and police. Everything we’ve seen/experienced since is a result of the Democratic establishment machine’s embrace of systemic/institutionalized racism, small thinking and a tripping down on protecting status & status quo… At any cost.” Black faces in high places made it all possible.

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“I used to think the role our region would play post Ferguson, was creating a new blueprint for justice and black empowerment. I saw the potential.

I was wrong. St. Louis did create a new blueprint though: what not to do. St. Louis will go down as a case study, the poster city of how leaders made a bad situation worse, exacerbated the region’s decline, widened the racial divide and riff between the community and police.

Everything we’ve seen/experienced since is a result of the Democratic establishment machine’s embrace of systemic/institutionalized racism, small thinking and a tripping down on protecting status & status quo… At any cost.”

Black faces in high places made it all possible.

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Next Post Video – Today is Darren Seals birthday. Sigh. Its still difficult for me to talk about Darren… I’ve been asked several times to speak… for an interview or even do documentaries. Instead I choose to focus on preserving his message and the work he and I started. Take a minute to reflect on his words… If you really want to pay homage pick up the torch, help spread his message and expose the hijacking of Ferguson. These forces are still at play. ”I was on that bus to nowhere for a minute. As early as we made the shift away from BLM, it’s STILL our responsibility to tell that truth and come clean before we can legitimately move forward. I urge some of y’all out there to do the same so WE CAN GET TO THIS WORK. #noshameinthetruth #stopcaping”. – Brian Taylor, Mass Action for Black Liberation (Formerly Black Lives Matter Cincinnati)