We watched this happen in Newark, NJ; back in the '60's and '70's. Black socialists rioted, the city leadership said Fuckit, and bailed out. Downtown Newark lay in ruins for decades. The people got to live with what they had voted for.
H. "Rap" Brown.
Leroi Jones.
Kawaida Towers.
Famous enablers.
Kenneth A. Gibson.
I grew up in The North Ward. During the riots, my neighbors and I sat on our front steps each night with shotguns laid across our laps as the rioters, Police, and National Guard streamed past, nonstop. Pretty much like the Keystone Cops. It was just us; and the families were upstairs, laying low. All those Fucking Commie Bastards invaded our peacefully integrated neighborhood, instigated the flames, and then "moved on to greater things".
Our daughter was born in 1971. We moved out of Newark before she finished grade school. We were just about the last white folks to leave. I made damned sure that she never spent even a single day in public school.
I was friends with Steve Adubato and Tony Imperiale; their kids were in my Scout Troop. Steve was a kind, peaceful man. Tony was a bit of a hothead who had the backing of the entire Italian community. It was even rumored, and widely believed, that Tony had a tank tucked away in a warehouse somewhere in the city.
All of my Scout leaders when I was a kid there were Irish Cops and Firemen. The entire Irish and Italian community bailed after Kawaida, and spawned the term "White Flight". I was one of the few whites remaining after that; they called us "The White Ni@@ers of Newark"
*. In two years, Newark was transformed from a peaceful White Italian city to a vast, sprawling, demolished Ghetto.
I spent from 1st to 6th grade in the NYC public schools, in what became AOC's District; and the smell of the Commies was evident there even back then in the 1950's. When I had completed first grade in a Catholic School, the Atheist principal of the public school I transferred into insisted that I had to repeat the first grade in his school because Catholic education I had received was tainted with worship and religious bias. After that, I was always the oldest kid in class.
Soon after, he was sued by parents over stamping out prayer in his school, and went on to gain the SCOTUS ruling which banned prayer in Public schools nationwide. His lawsuit was bankrolled by the NY City School system and the NY State Department of Education. The parents religious affiliations left them twisting in the wind. That was the beginning of what we have today, including AOC. Today they celebrate his name as a staunch defender of the First Amendment. The hypocrisy is appalling, but it also serves to explain how the Communists got their hold over NY State.
I had learned at an early age that Commies Suck Hindmost Tit.
I think that Minneapolis has bought the cow, that they should now be required to drink the milk, and that it's going to get really sour, really soon.
It's their mess; they get to clean it up, no outside help allowed. Nobody helped us in Newark.
Aw Gee, Mr. Governor; we shit our pants. Could you please, please give us another pair?
Oh, and would you change them for us too, pretty please?
Fuck that...
* The article was written in 2009. It took from the 1970's for Newark to pull itself out of the sinkhole that the riots had put it into. Ta-Nehisi Coates is bang-on correct about Booker. The guy has real creds, and pulled that city out of the grave. Presidential campaigns notwithstanding...
As I said, I grew up in Newark and stayed for the after party, too. It stands to reason that I
had to have friends on
both sides of the debate. Those days, if you were young and weren't a Democrat, you had no heart. If you were middle aged and were still a Democrat, you had no brains. New Jersey, New York, Arizona; some of these things are not like the others.
So I think it's clear where I sit on the subject of rioting in general.
IMHO, it's what happens when outside agitators come in and say, "Hey; let's you and him fight..."
These riots are really a very old story for me; and an exceedingly ugly one, too...
It's what happens when people in charge put the kid gloves on and concentrate on looking at the squirrels...
Ain't that a lot of squirrels...?
Greg