CREDIT: Alice Ollstein ATLANTA, GEORGIA—When Yoehzer Yeeftahk saw images of Michael Brown’s lifeless body laying in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri for upwards of four hours , something within him changed. He told ThinkProgress he immediately thought of the lynching of African Americans that rocked his state just one generation ago. “For them to leave that young man’s body out as a display, it was a message: don’t any of y’all step out of line.” But Yeeftahk, who grew up in Atlanta’s West End, said that message has had the opposite effect. He and many others in Georgia were...
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