Anchor on @CNN wondering aloud why police aren’t using water cannons in #Ferguson. Co-anchor not impressed pic.twitter.com/umNswiID4e
— Steve Kaschinske (@Kaschman14) August 19, 2025
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The great irony of the USA; we will go far abroad to protect the rights of selected persecuted minorities, we will speak about fair elections, we will condemn others for their failures in human rights, while in our own country we have long been guilty of these sins ourselves. The leaders and citizens of other countries are well aware of this hypocrisy. When they sit across negotiating tables they will have as ammunition the long voting lines and all of the moves to hinder and deny the right to vote, the many tales of members of an oppressed minority gunned down in the streets, unarmed, peacefully protesting citizens being persecuted by heavily armed police (so much for our much-vaunted constitutional rights), a national media, financed and controlled by a small group of wealthy white men, and a white majority that hates and does all that it can to marginalize and destroy a small minority (that is still less than 13% of the overall population).
CNN’s supposed to be airing The 60s. White anchor wonders why #FergusonPD isn’t using water cannons. Let that sink in pic.twitter.com/MuWXFluRT8
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 19, 2025
What can we dare to say to others when we have not cleaned up our own house, when we are guilty of the same crimes that we dare to take other countries to task? It is more than time that we truly take up all of our country’s ills and make a final push to cure them. For far too long, the sores have been covered with band aids, but it is so easy to pull them off and to see the infection underneath. When Buddhist monks, Amnesty International, and the war-torn and savaged Palestinans are compelled to reach out to help American citizens who are being persecuted from all sides, shows just how bad our unresolved racial issues are. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I love this country; I wish that my country loved me.
OMG the look on this guy’s face when the white lady suggested using water cannons on the #Ferguson protesters: pic.twitter.com/cV1KMkcZZp
— NickBaumann (@NickBaumann) August 19, 2025
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