Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines - the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26484-understanding-our-many-fergusons-kill-lines-the-will-the-right-and-the-need-to-kill
There seems to be a war raging in the United States for which there is no end in sight. A war, the outcome of which may well determine whether many African-American children will live to reach adulthood. More precisely, what is happening looks and feels like a race war that pits the right of African-Americans to have their young people live with dignity against the right of angry white policemen and vigilantes with guns to kill them.

My understanding of what is happening in Ferguson and elsewhere in the United States developed as the result of a perfect storm-like convergence of a number of influences.