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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 1389335" data-attributes="member: 18225">If Brown was a white dude, would any of this have happened?In Ferguson, and in America generally, there is a vast disparity in Cop/Citizen altercations, and the disparity lies mostly in race (class is in there too, but even millionaire Blacks get pulled over more often than millionaire Whites).In the 1960's, people were shocked to see the Police dealing with the BLACK populace by utilizing 'military' vehicles, helmets, dogs, water hoses, tear gas, unnecessary arrests, detaining journalists, etc.In 2014, people are shocked to see the Police dealing with the BLACK populace by utilizing military vehicles, helmets, dogs, tear gas, unnecessary arrests, detaining journalists, etc.What's the difference between irony and idiocy?</blockquote>