The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... In Ferguson, Missouri an 18 year old young man named Michael Brown was stopped and confronted by a police officer, namely Officer Darren Wilson, after Officer Wilson received a police radio to pursue a suspect in the area matching Michael Browns appearance because of a robbery at a local convenient store. ... The delivery of this description almost immediately infers that the reason that Michael Brown was killed was because he was a black man being pursued by a white man. ...

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One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To m...

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