Class Prejudice Resurgent

[Tom Joad]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/op...resurgent.html

A thoughtful opinion piece by a conservative.

Caught me by surprise.

One of the features of all the Ferguson discussion over the past few months is how tinny the comparisons to the civil-rights era have sounded. People have tried to link Ferguson to Selma and Jim Crow, but something is off.

That’s, in part, because we’ve moved from simplicity to ambiguity. The civil rights struggle was about as clear a conflict between right and wrong as we get in national life. The debate about Ferguson elicited complex reactions among most sensible people.

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