Is it perhaps that he is simply being ironic?
I think he meant that if there had been more opportunity and more businesses the rioting could have been avoided. Why more anchor stores I’m not sure, wasn’t that supposedly targeted because it was a symbol of white society ? Just like 1968, almost all of the property damaged then was owned by whites, not blacks.
Is it perhaps that he is simply being ironic?....No, no. Moronic.