Daily Kos features someone blaming the white reaction.
After sitting on the sidelines, silent at the lynching of Freddie Gray, you'd think that some property damage and non-lethal violence would fail to shake the conscience of the average white viewer. You'd be wrong.
The National Review looks at which party has led Baltimore since I was in kindergarten.
Black urban communities face institutional failure across the board every day. There are people who should be made to answer for that: What has Martin O’Malley to say for himself?
The Daily Kos piece seems to excuse the rioting as the last chance to get attention. A choice they were driven to make.
The Daily Kos piece seems to excuse the rioting as the last chance to get attention. A choice they were driven to make.
As a white male, I don't particularly care for looting and rioting. I wouldn't like to be one of the store or property owners who will have to replace or rebuild. But I'm forced to recognize this destruction as the final option for a group of people so systematically disenfranchised that their voices have not been heard.
I don't think that's going to work.
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