Posted on 05/03/2015 4:55:05 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The rioting in Baltimore wasn’t hooliganism. It was a protest against the depredations of the ghetto economy.
Most people can sympathize with the anger on display this week in the streets of Baltimore. It’s relatively easy to feel compassion for people who’ve suffered police brutality and abject poverty, even if you’ve never experienced either. Looting and burning is harder to understand, since torching a CVS store would hardly seem to have anything to do with protesting the actions of the Baltimore Police Department. President Obama decried the Baltimore riots as “senseless violence and destruction.” Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake also despaired at the destruction. “We worked so hard to get a company like CVS to invest in this neighborhood,” she said, “this is the only place that so many people have to pick up their prescriptions.” Why would anyone burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood?
The reason, I think, is likely the same reason that poor black Americans in cities across the country burned “their own” neighborhoods in the late 1960s: They did not experience those places as their own. Then, like now, police brutality was a precipitating cause of the violence, but it was the long-term experience of the indignities of the ghetto that gave shape to the riots. Then, like now, commentators compared the rioters to animals who had run wild and needed discipline. Rioting, to these bystanders, was not proper political protest but the criminal actions of poor people who merely wanted to grab what they could for free. This narrative, which I heard throughout my childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1980s, put the blame not on the depredations of the ghetto, but on the character of its residents. It completely misapprehends the political economy of our poorest neighborhoods.
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Liberals always side with criminals. They are also driven to view things upside down. Black is white, night is day, etc. You can’t fix something you refuse to look at honestly.
Bottom line: There is no excuse for theft and vandalism and rioting. Had the liberals possessions been taken and their houses burned I am sure they would feel differently.
It’s a shame and the thugs just don’t care about that.
No, it’s because they’re incredibly stupid, completely undisciplined, and frequently violent.
Excellent point-out of a completely absurd argument.
Lots a failed supposition here. I highly doubt that filling badly needed prescriptions was a common occurrence for the healthy and strapping youths who were pillaging the aisles of CVS.
I’m sure they got the Vicodin out before they burned it. they be gots priorities.
Neither are they ‘black’. They’re negroes. A race, like caucasians.
Not really. Almost all of them are mixed race.
By the way, Triple E - can you complete the name of this organization?
'National Association for the Advancement of C________ People'
And while you are at it, can you give the original name for what is now called the 'Christian Methodist Episcopal' denomination? Hint, the 'C' used to stand for something else.
Baltimore is an African city, and its majority inhabitants behave as they would in any other African city. This is not a popular notion, but it is true. Third World behavior.
Absolutely, and that’s frightening!
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My local rag has this one beat. One of the opinion writers is suggesting that ALL cops be elected because....well... County Sheriffs are.
Freedom requires vigilance...not fear.
“When you understand the nature of a thing...you know what it’s capable of” Miyamoto Musashi, the book of 5 rings.
Then make those responsible pay for your misery-—Obama and your mayor! Not some innocent business.
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So, now rioting is righteous?
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1) The tu quoque fallacy of "Sports riots!!!1!! Privileged white boys riot too!!!!!"
2) Rioting is a justifiable response to oppression by eeevil Republicans.
this is a wonderful example of why no one should enroll at cornell
“Abject Poverty?”
I’ve been all around the world the last 30+ years. I’ve seen real poverty. Baltimore isn’t even close.
Their poverty is spiritual and moral poverty.
"....we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. " Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Yeah. "They" only looted the 'white owned' business. All the Black owned hair and nail shops came through unscathed. Oh, wait,….
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