Chris Hayes is in Ferguson, MO today. At his show's opening, the white protesters crowded around him, seeming to trust the crowd more than they trusted what Mr. Hayes might say.
After a few moments Mr. Hayes talked to black citizens. He also spoke with some of the minority
elected officials.
Apparently, he can get any group to want to speak with him, and he somehow finds the most eloquent
persons to describe myriad points of view on any event.
I believe that though Mr. Hayes looks like an ordinary white Ivy League youngster, he is way more
worldly than that, and way older than a college freshman.
He always has said he has street creds, but one day this week I began to believe him.
He was speaking to an African-American man, and spoke the phrase, 'from jump' without missing a breath.
White guys just can't ordinarily do that unless they are attempting to do it. Mr. Hayes is a natural.
I suspected as much when he took his show to Georgia.
There were two crowds in that venue.
The white fans stood to his right. the black fans, very enthusiastic, stood on his left.
I wondered how he had so many southern black fans in the first place.
I also noted that in the south, segregation must come naturally- even to liberals.
In Ferguson, it seems the white people who don't want to see kids shot down in the streets are very
protective of their minority neighbors, and the rhetoric they might be subjected to regarding
protest behaviors.
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