Charlotte: 2 weeks later - A tale of divergence
(Image Credit: Adam Rhew) Two weeks later. Where are we? A little over a 2 weeks ago, the CMPD shot and killed Keith Scott. (NPR, 09/16) Ever since then there has been a public reawakening of old southern pains in a city striving to be the new face of the south. After the violent rioting, peaceful protests, release of videos, and a very vocal city council meeting, where are we, two weeks later, as the citizens of Charlotte? The streets are back to normal. The curfew is lifted. The state of emergency (for the protests) is over. If you did not see the news for a week or two, you might have not known anything ever occurred. I think there are few separate, but important issues that are often conflated in this incident: Structural racism, Socioeconomic class, and believe it or not --- the segregation of Charlotte's schools. Charlotte is a city going through growing pains. It has experienced great economic prosperity in the last decade, but that prosperity has not reach