The verdict rendered regarding officer Darren Wilson is not only a sickening moral decision on behalf of the people of Ferguson and its citizens, but a fraudulent disgrace of injustice on American people, the Brown family, African American parents and race relations in this country.
When you can, as a sworn officer of the law and as a lawyer, take an oath to provide evidence based on fact as established by the Constitution of this great nation, and exert action sustaining judgment on a fraudulent, edited, unconstitutional Civil Rights Act of 1875, then we have a serious problem. This isn’t just about a single man and a single victim; this is moving backward to Jim Crow and segregation with new age uniforms.
We as citizens and parents are in a quagmire of accountability, how to properly educate our youth: who to trust, how to identify a criminal, proper protocol for respect, who protects us, what a target is, what perpetuates a community and who is allowed to live in it? One thing is certain, until economic disparity is rectified, this social caste system will continue to run its unfortunate, grave course.
By Chama St. Louis 
The writer is chairwoman, Peoria Black Chamber of Commerce