"In the week after the Charlottesville disorder, several notable things happened 130 miles to the northeast in Baltimore.
Several public statues commemorating Civil War-era figures were hustled away in the dead of night.
Five new homicides were chalked up.
And Nathan Connolly, an African American associate professor of history at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University penned an op-ed for the Washington Post that may—depending on how you parse it—have called for terrorism against civil society.
Actually, five murders in a week wasn’t notable in Baltimore.
In mid-June, six people were killed in a single 24-hour period.
The dog days of summer have sapped everyone’s energy...
The WaPo Op Ed was particularly striking.
Its premise was that liberalism has failed to deal with racial injustice in the U.S.—and its conclusion was that blacks need to resume throwing rocks.
Whether the rocks are to be literal or metaphorical is only somewhat in question.
Baltimore’s murder problem, like its drug problem, police corruption problem, subliteracy problem, tax-base problem, and population-decline problem, has a distinctively demographic component.
The racial mix of the city is now approximately 63% African-American, 29% white, with allegedly undercounted Latinos making up most of the rest.
Those numbers accompany an eye-catching murder rate..."
Read on!
In mid-June, six people were killed in a single 24-hour period.
The dog days of summer have sapped everyone’s energy...
The WaPo Op Ed was particularly striking.
Its premise was that liberalism has failed to deal with racial injustice in the U.S.—and its conclusion was that blacks need to resume throwing rocks.
Whether the rocks are to be literal or metaphorical is only somewhat in question.
Baltimore’s murder problem, like its drug problem, police corruption problem, subliteracy problem, tax-base problem, and population-decline problem, has a distinctively demographic component.
The racial mix of the city is now approximately 63% African-American, 29% white, with allegedly undercounted Latinos making up most of the rest.
Those numbers accompany an eye-catching murder rate..."
Read on!
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