Posted on 04/29/2015 12:17:22 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The apologetics began almost as soon as the fires were lit in Baltimore yesterday, heralding a night of violence and looting that would leave 24 police officers injured and 19 buildings torched, including a $16 million senior center providing affordable housing and a CVS drugstore providing crucial medications for elderly customers.
Society refuses to help [young blacks] in a serious fashion, Michael Eric Dyson announced on MSNBC. Were only there when they riot. Mika Brzezinski observed on Morning Joe: This was an extremely, desperately poor city. This was bound to happen. We were seeing an uprising of young people against the police, the result of a combination of anger and disparity, said professional talking head Wes Moore. Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore police officer and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, blamed the drug laws. . .
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MacDonald is brilliant..I’ve enjoyed her work for years. Actually, my 4 fave commentators are all female: MacDonald, Noemie Emerie, Christina Hoff Summers, and Carolina Glick. Not only are they very smart, but they all write very well.
previous mayor
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Nobody helped me. Maybe learning in school instead of dropping out. Maybe acquiring job skills.
Baltimore, like Detroit has been run by Democrats for some 50 years now. The left got everything it wanted in Baltimore.
Gibsmedats and DinduMuffins don’t gots enough stuff.
I am sick of reading the lie that this “had to happen.”Black elected officials and Communist and anarchist outside agitators and Black community organizers made this happen.
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