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Even today, I'm not sure about the correlation between riots and anyone's measure of racial injustice. Ferguson seems rather average when it comes to the black/white arrest ratio, significantly less extreme than Santa Monica or Madison Wisconsin. The only respect in which Ferguson seems unusual is that the population is mostly black and the government isn't, a result of its demographic change being relatively recent.

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You seem to have lost the thread of this conversation. The original use of lynching in no way suggested that we should see a continuous increase in its usage. The point was that not punishing it emboldens those who would seek to expand racial injustice. So the statistical decline in lynching does not contravene this point in any way given that lynchings declined because racists were under the impression that they had successfully cowed their targets. Furthermore, my comments about riots were not limited to the 60s or 70s. I was thinking also about contemporary events like we are seeing in places like Missouri.

Finally, if the cancer is downstream from the infection, that's all the more reason for me to support #4 over #3. I'd rather fight a disease than a symptom.

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