A 33-Word Editorial about Ferguson

Posted on November 24, 2014 by

2 Comments

People whose anger could ignite change opt instead to be polite, not wanting to rock boats carrying disapproval, while those whose anger is expected and discounted influence nothing but the air around them.

Category: WritingTags:

2 Comments on “A 33-Word Editorial about Ferguson”

  1. I’m sad, discouraged, and left with so many questions. Are people protesting the decision, or that the decision isn’t what they wanted? Will the protesters read court transcripts to find out why the decision was made? Do we trust our justice system? If not, how will burning change that? Why are the vandals so predominately male? Will we ever know what really happened between two men? Do we trust the media to give us unbiased reporting? Did Rodney King teach us nothing? Would all this be happening if the two men had been of the same race? If violent protests change nothing, how can we expect peaceful protests to do anything? If protests, peaceful or not, effect no change, what is left? If nothing changed after Rodney King, how can we expect change now? How would society be if we returned to a matriarchal society? If we allowed more women to step in? The questions go on and on and on and I have no answers.

    Reply

  2. And attitudes here…I live across the Missouri River from last night…act as self-fulfilling prophecies…and disenfranchised young men thrown rocks from Palestine to Ferguson…

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Follow Red's Wrap via email

Enter your email address to follow Red's Wrap and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 4,915 other subscribers
What’s new on Red’s Wrap

Follow Jan on Instagram

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2022 3rd Place Fiction Winner
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect

Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect

Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect

 

Jan Wilberg

Jan Wilberg

What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

View Full Profile →

"The Power of Saying You're Sorry," Lives, Newsweek, 9-5-08
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11

Copyright

(c) Janice Wilberg and Red’s Wrap (2010-2023). Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author/owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Janice (Jan) Wilberg and Red’s Wrap with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

%d