fergusons aftermath ..

[frenchy]

so now after most of the burning and lootin and shoutin and molitov cocktails have been thrown whats next for ferguson ?? i don't think it goes back to how it was .. i'll bet quite a few of those business's won't come back .. won't rebuild . i was born in newark n.j. .. lived part of my life on the elizabeth newark line and i remember the riots back in 67 .. more than a dozen years later i was drivin a truck and went to newark for a couple of stops a week .. and springfield ave. still looked exactly the same as it did in 67 .. burned out buildins left just like they were .. they didn't even bother to knock em down .. and all the business's fled to more peaceful pastures . i moved out to n.y for a few years and came back in the mid 80's but i wasn't drivin a truck anymore so i'm not sure if they ever rebuilt newark or not .. i've been in florida since 89 so who knows .. what i had heard tho was after the riots there was a lot of arson ( most due to dubious causes for ins. more than likely ) so instead of the city gettin better year by year it actually got worse .. and the more business's that don't reopen , the more it will contribute to other business"s closin .. kinda like a domino effect .. and as goes the economy in the area so goes the housin values .. so in effect what all this riotin has accomplished is takin the breath of life out of their own neighborhoods .. and in a couple of years from now they'll be cryin why do i have to drive 5 miles just to do my laundry , or to get a carton of milk ?? and the simple answer will be , because your neighborhood is a really bad risk for business and 7/11 or exxon , or walmart or macdonalds just don't want to deal with the headaches .. and as bad as they think it is now ?? it will be much worse in a few years .. they wanted attention tho , and they got it .. now if they had only kept the protests peaceful i think the outcome could have been much different .. but they're on the map now .. the only hope they have now is if they change the city's name quietly in a few years from ferguson to somethin else that will have absolutely no association with ferguson whatsoever .. just my opinion but based on past events i think i'm pretty close to the truth .. what do you guys think ?? 

[frenchy]

yeah i read that too .. what it didn't say was that wilson was involved in any of those complaints tho .. time will tell .. i'm sure the fbi and the doj is lookin into that right now so if he has anything like that in his background it will come out .. thats the thing about incidents like this .. all the facts are slow to be forthcomming .. so everyone thinks nothin is bein done .. and then of course there are all the rumors that get started to support whatever side you want to believe is right which only complicates matters even more..