Posted on 06/15/2021 4:25:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Almost exactly a year ago, race riots paralyzed more than a dozen of America's great cities, from New York to Seattle. The smoke hasn't gone away.
As we should have learned from the last episode of urban rioting during the late 1960s, the devastating adverse effects from rage and lawlessness are long-lasting and borne mostly by minorities, immigrant communities and the poor.
Amazingly, the media had rarely investigated what really happened last summer when criminal gangs seized control of cities under the guise of racial justice. The politicians cynically celebrated the violent protests as "mostly peaceful" and gave cover to the assailants by glorifying them as "social justice warriors."
Thankfully, four reporters at the Chicago Tribune have investigated what really happened in the once great "city that works" and the devastating effects that still are felt. It's harrowing and Pulitzer-worthy material.
Written and reported by Todd Lighty, Gary Marx, Christy Gutowski and William Lee, we urge a full reading, but here are the lowlights:
In just a few days, there were 15 homicides and 53 shooting victims. More than 2,100 businesses were looted, 71 buildings were set on fire and looters stole more than 700,000 prescription pills from drug stores.
Businesses suffered more than $165 million in damages, "though the true cost is certainly much higher."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot had no clue what was coming, and her response was indefensibly feeble. She did not want the National Guard, even as the city burned.
The city's inspector general issued a scathing report, which portrays Lightfoot as woefully unprepared, as were other mayors. Downtown businesses were destroyed.
"I thought, 'I'm a Black-owned business. They're not going to bother me,'" said Howard Bolling, owner of the Roseland Pharmacy at 11254 S. Michigan Ave.
No such luck.
The riots even forced families at the Ronald McDonald House, where parents' sick children are cared for, to flee for their safety. Protesters used hammers to smash windows and doors.
The Ronald McDonald House is a cancer facility.
Here is what is most infuriating. Throughout that first wave of rioting, looting, arson and murder, only about 170 rioters were charged with felonies. It should have been 1,000 or more. Why hasn't Chicago law enforcement looked through the videos and tracked down these violent criminals?
Based on the property damage, the homicides, the injuries and the financial losses to the residents, this insurrection was many times worse than the indefensible actions at the U.S. capital by pro-Trump protesters on Jan. 6.
Why is no one paying attention to and amplifying the Tribune story of what happened in Chicago? Why is no one writing similar accounts of the carnage in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Kenosha, Portland and Los Angeles? Why isn't the local law enforcement and the FBI hunting down the perpetrators and putting them behind bars? We have video evidence of who they are and what they did. President Joe Biden seems only interested in putting the pro-Trump protesters behind bars.
Who and how will we stop the fires next time? The left's response has been to deluge these cities with hundreds of billions of federal dollars. It seems highly unfair to force people in Omaha, Nebraska, and Boise, Idaho, to pay for the failure of "progressive" Democratic mayors and blue-state governors to ensure public safety. You broke it; you fix it.
Money won't fix the damage to the civil infrastructure of these low-income neighborhoods that were ransacked. It will take many years and perhaps decades to undo the damage to these communities. These Black and Hispanic families deserve justice.
Can we at least, please, stop calling the Black Lives Matter rioters "social justice warriors?"
They were obviously not “race riots.” They were Marxist riots.
And we allowed an election to be stolen by the very people who were behind it all
Bug-eyed creature runs Chicago.
How do you say “arkancide,” in Chicago? They need to watch their 6.
Thought it was a good article until I got to the 2nd to last sentence posted. Does the woke crap just creep in on people?
Reminder:
New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that rioters destroying property is “not violence”. Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.
June 3, 2020
Immediately after rioters rationalized looting and burning because the victims had insurance.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/ny-times-reporter-says-destroying-property-is-not-violence/
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Forget it, Jake. It’s Chitown.
I recently read this book, “COMING APART” by Charles Murray, which was recommended by LS.
Across our nation, we now have semi secret enclaves of the super rich and mainly white Americans.
These elites have quietly moved into their enclaves or created enclaves to live in, for at least 5 decades and more with some families.
They live in and often secretly control the richest zip codes in America, which means they often control our Congress and many if not most legislatures in our States and the local politicians.
Their children, often, like their parents/grand parents go to the elite Ivy League colleges in the NE, on the west coast, Stanford and USC. GW or Georgetown in the DC area.
The UC system, Universities of California, have ensured that if the children want to go to a UC system, they get accepted.
Often this goes back several generations. In the west coast, they are accepted and become part of the UC Grad Clique, Stanford or USC cliques. Often where their great grand parents went to college. Many had great/great grandparents going to these elite and expensive college from WWI through the depression and WWII.
The salary entry levels in elite controlled businesses for these elite offspring are often at good 6 figure plus levels.
That salary level and parental connections enables them to “buy” basically any home in a protected elite area.
COMING APART by Charles Murray
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.
“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York Times
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.
The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosion’s of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.
The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.
“Who and how will we stop the fires next time?”
Who cares...as long as it’s confined to democrat run cities and their voters.
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