So how long until this finally stops being news so we can get back to >rape on the news?

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Inb4 So Boerd.OT: Being human and therefore vulnerable to inherent bias and racist attitudes when confronted with social issues such as these, I naturally don't buy the cop's story---but that's mostly due to the fact that I wasn't there when the entire thing went down. Saw the viral video where Michael Brown decided to have his way with that mini-mart or whatever, so it's hard (if not downright impossible) for me to defend him.I'm more angry with how the folks down there have decided to burn and loot stores and homes indiscriminately (which is disrespectful to the humble wishes of the Brown family, whom called for peaceful protests), which is going to have socioeconomic consequences in the near future. Aside from white flight, you're going to witness 'store flight' when entire swathes of local business departs Ferguson en masse. Goodbye jobs, goodbye spenders and hello being broke.Extreme poverty will ensue, moving out of the town will become impossible and the cycle of crime, violence and ignorance will drive on.This'll only get worse as 2043 draws closer. I'll be prepared by then though.
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The St. Louis area is already dead in much the same way Detroit here went dead. It lost its main economic crutch a long-time ago, that being the railway.

Shit already died there. It'll bubble and turn into a pocket of low income nonsense for a decade or two until it straightens out and folk start trickling back for whatever reason. But as it stands, St Louis is in the same boat as us here around Detroit, just a lot quieter. And St Louis dropped all its people a lot faster and a lot earlier. This is not to mention Ferguson - and the St Louis area - has already lost all their wealthy major business operating white people. It's not starting, it's already happened.

Welcome to the ghetto, we got fun and games. Leave yo sneakers at the door but don't expect to find them later.