The fire in the streets of Ferguson is reminiscent of the urban riots that burned nearly all major U.S. cities in the 1960s. Black rioters burning down black neighborhoods. Once again, there is a false assertion that the rioting is an expression of outrage against “the system.” Sadly, there has been a lack of police or National Guard protection for the real victims of rioting, then and now: small business owners, including many African American business owners and their employees.
Today’s “warrior cops” are better armed with military gear and riot control training, yet the urban policy remains the same: “it is better to let them loot than shoot.” As long as this is the policy of city leaders, riots will continue whenever there is an excuse for young people to loot pharmacies and liquor stores, torch hair salons or furniture stores and wipe out the livelihoods of their neighbors. We have learned nothing from the well-documented tragedies of the 1960s.
Looting and arson in the 1960s wiped out entire business districts in black neighborhoods. Many riots were precipitated by encounters with police, such as a police raid on an illegal after-hours bar in Detroit — an incident that resulted in the destruction of over 2,000 small businesses and buildings. This cycle played out in cities across the nation resulting in 200 deaths and enormous property damage. The physical and emotional scars of those riots remained decades after the fires expired.
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What I'm sitting here wondering all about is how that Blackout protest at UMES turned out. The rain outside is the tears of our dear Lord, falling down on those misguided and uninformed people who might have shown up to it.
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy on them.
The good people in those places need to get together and protect their own things. I remember living very close to DC during the 68 riots.The adults got together and were armed to the teeth in case the violence spilled over. The National Guard was there with unloaded weapons.
ReplyDeleteI think all of this is funny as crap , remember , it is their culture to act this way , that's all they know and believe in.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot change them , their parents have brain washed them in these beliefs.