How does the ten year total compare to a year in Baltimore and Chicago?
The author is comparing apples and oranges. The Waco incident (as an example of whiteness) seems to me analogous to crip and blood drive by shootings (as an example of blackness). That is, they are both bad guy on bad guy violence.
For the author to draw a correct analogy between Waco and the recent riots, there would have had to have been an unjustified shooting BY BLACK POLICE in Waco of the bikers and then a bunch of white people would have had to riot because the bikers were white and the police were black. It would tighten the analogy were the white rioters egged on by a white supremacist attorney general and mayor—say David Duke were the mayor in Waco and David Lynch were the US attorney general.
Of course, no riots occurred in Waco by white people—only bad guy on bad guy violence met by a very fast and severe response by the police, followed by no riots.
“People of color can’t even turn on the televisions in their own homes without being exposed to white racism.”
I can’t turn on the news without seeing a disproportionate number of black or illegal murder scenes.