Michael Brown, killed by Ferguson police on Aug. 9, 2014, is a casualty of a war originating over 500 years ago — a war to colonize, dispossess, enslave, deny rights of citizenship; a war to decolonize, repossess, emancipate, democratize. The Ferguson protests reveal both the history of the racial regimes that ultimately left him dead in the streets, but more importantly, reveal the alternative possibilities for creating democracy rooted in freedom, justice, and decolonization.
