What happened in Ferguson?
The basics of the Mike Brown shooting and what has happened since.
A pretty straight-forward, non-opinionated collection of facts.
The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles
Ferguson movement drafts its own blueprint
A comparison of the Ferguson movement with earliest civil rights campaignsFerguson Action's list of demands
From a civil rights group started in response to the Ferguson situationTelling My Son About Ferguson
by Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow)
Officer Darren Wilson’s Grand Jury Testimony in Ferguson, Mo., Shooting
Documents Released in the Ferguson Case
Here are documents and evidence presented to the grand jury in Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown.The Ferguson Fraud
From The National Review: It’s a terrible tragedy, not a metaphor for police brutality.
The terrifying racial stereotypes laced through Darren Wilson's testimony
From vox.com.
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Malcolm X's daughter on what she thinks her father would think about the current protest movements in the US
How to Teach Kids About What's Happening in Ferguson
A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing from The Atlantic:
The Case for Police Reform Is Much Bigger Than Michael Brown
From The Atlantic: There are clearer, more persuasive illustrations of law-enforcement misbehavior and the need to rein it in.
In Ferguson, Black Town, White Power
Opinion piece in The New York Times:
Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop
Michael Brown Wasn’t a Superhuman Demon
From The Atlantic: But Darren Wilson’s racial prejudice told him otherwise
The Silence around Ferguson
From The National Review: Sometimes, it seems, black lives don’t matter.
Reaction to Ferguson Decision Shows Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice
From The New York Times.
I don't know why I've never tried this before, but it seems like a pretty obvious idea now: Let's post our responses to the articles we read here, and see if we can get an online discussion going. As in class, let's be sure to follow some basic guidelines to have a productive online discussion:
ReplyDelete1. Talk to each other, not past each other. Respond to what others have said.
2. Cite evidence. Speak from either your own personal experience or from a trustworthy source. (Opinions, as well as facts, are valid things to discuss--just try to be specific about whose opinion and facts you are citing.)
3. Don't over-generalize. Be precise as possible. Absolute words like "always," "never," "all," and "none," are rarely accurate or helpful.
4. Don't dismiss others' points of view right away. Be open-minded.
5. Acknowledge when you're not sure of "the answer." Ask questions of yourself and of others.
6. Seek more information when you are not sure of the facts. Do you own research and share your sources (if you give a link to your source, others can read it and evaluate it for themselves).
7. Don't make it personal. Don't attack people. Debate the ideas.
I probably am forgetting some things, but this should cover it for now.
Please check back for others' responses frequently. I think they may be a way for you to sign up to receive email notifications when others post comments on this page.