Imagine this —-
A poor Jewish student is shot by a policemen during a demonstration in the Jewish community of the former East Germany. 70 years after the end of WWII the community is again largely Jewish and poor. Most of the residents lived as hidden Jews under the Stasi but were well known to be Jewish. Somehow they were kept from the schools by the “People’s Republic” and and prohibited from most jobs in the German Democratic Republic. The wall came down but changed little for these people because they were so poor and badly educated that most Germans, even the immigrants from Turkey saw them as unable to compete with real Germans.
Weird story? Or is this an allegory for Ferguson? Read more in this essay by Moriel Rothman-Zecher .