Ferguson is a reminder the American Dream is over; the American Nightmare is just beginning.

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National Review published a profile of the last white mayor of Ferguson, current Mayor James Knowles III. In the piece, it ends with his eternal optimism that commerce will come back to the 67 percent black city of Ferguson, they'll be profitable (and produce tax revenue to support public services), and his belief homeowners will have peace in the city.

“A lot of people talk about the new normal, and I’m not sure we know exactly what that is yet,” he says. “But one thing that I’m confident of is that commerce will return and businesses will get back to a point where they’re having regular customers and being profitable, and that homeowners will be able to have peace in their neighborhoods.”

Oh, there was a time when Ferguson had plenty of commerce, with businesses enjoying regular customers and growing profits, and homeowners enjoyed peace and stability: but this was when Ferguson was 99 percent white (1970); or 86 percent white (1980); or 78 percent white (1990). The existing housing stock is described by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as, "a picture of pleasant suburbia, with trees lining streets in front of tract houses built during the 1950s and 1960s."
                                                                  

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