re: Ferguson, what's your opinion?

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The most troubling part to me is the pack mentality that members of lower socioeconomic classes, who are disproportionately minorities, have in situations like this.

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I'll go a step further. It's not really socioeconomic. It's tribal. And I don't mean that in an "African tribe" sense. A couple of my African American friends in town here are very well off, both have family incomes in the $150k+ range. And they see the shooting in much the same way as the protesters.

I don't think that's peculiar to black people. We are becoming a tribal society where the groups with which we identify are where we get our "truth." And those aren't necessarily tied to race for everyone. For some it's race, for some it's social strata, for some it's religion or lack thereof, for some it's political party, for some it's an issue-driven thing (dislike of cops or the opposite). We aren't nearly concerned with truth as we are with our tribals impulses.