She said the protest is bigger than Michael Brown. “It’s about the way police act toward certain people, it’s about the need for a change in leadership,” she said. “Martin Luther King didn’t sit back and do nothing. Rosa Parks didn’t sit back and do nothing. If you sit back and do nothing, nothing will ever change.” Kidd is the more fiery of the two. One recent morning, a woman in a silver SUV drove past them extending her middle finger. “You don’t think a problem exists,” Kidd yells at the passing vehicle. It’s part question, part accusation. “I’ve never seen so many white middle fingers in my life,” she tells her fellow protesters. Another time, a man on a motorcycle stopped in front of them and told them Brown was a criminal who deserved to die. Lots of other people scream expletives at them and tell them to get jobs. As an assistant librarian at the Ferguson Library, Kidd, who is white, said she gets a lot of flak around town. People tell her that she’s making the town look bad. “I don’t understand how I’m making Ferguson look bad,” she said. “I ask them, ‘Don’t you want an end to police brutality? Don’t you want black people to be treated the same way?” stltoday/news/local/metro/dedicated-protesters-take-criticism-form-bonds/article_b117c092-f1d1-5321-9e9f-c52ab809f85c.html
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