Like so many other Americans, I?ve spent the last week watching a chaotic, agonizing situation in Ferguson, Missouri. I?ve spent most of those days hoping for something better and fearing something worse. As tensions have risen between a black community set on demonstrating for its humanity and a police force bent on repressing those protests, as I watch the police and the National Guard dig in their heels, I keep wondering what the way out is. (Simon Balto is a PhD candidate in History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.)
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