At least in Baltimore voters elected a black mayor and city council. In Ferguson black citizens didn't even vote. It is not the complete fault of elected officials. Voters determine some of what the politicians do, over time. Why no riots before the death, after so much institutionalized racism as they claim now?
Toya Graham Encourages Her 16-year-old son to go home.
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Who owns Baltimore’s rage? Some facts: Every member of the Baltimore City Council is a Democrat. Every mayor since 1967 has been a Democrat. Such political homogeneity invites corruption. If some element of the city’s police department is brutal and corrupt, it’s because no one in Baltimore has lifted a finger to stop them.
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From where I stand, it’s hard to credit claims that a police force that is nearly 50 percent African-American is somehow hardwired to abuse residents of a majority black city. But if police corruption is a problem in Baltimore, and news reports suggest that it is, the solution to it cannot be running battles between cops and citizens. Rather, the clear solution is better governance. You say you want a revolution. How about electing a Republican or two to the Baltimore City Council? That would be truly radical.
In so much as anyone in Baltimore is angry at the “system,” they should direct their rage where it belongs—an unbroken, five-decade string of one-party rule in the city and a national War on Poverty that has systematically dismantled the black family.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0428mh.html
Matthew Hennessey
One Man’s Riot
Reflections on Baltimore
April 28, 2015
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