Friday, June 5, 2015
Miami 1980 vs. Baltimore 2015
On the 35th anniversary of the McDuffie riots, several involved in those tumultuous events say very little has changed in black's poorest neighborhoods -- noting disturbing similarities with recent events in Baltimore. Also: Marvin Dunn, co-author of a book on the 1980 riot, asks Miami to install marker where Arthur McDuffie died. Full report available HERE. Posted May 16, 2015.
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I used to wonder why the Russians put up with Peter the Great and other Czars, Stalin & other communist dictators, and now Putin.
ReplyDeleteHowever, here in the now U.S. Chesapeake Bay area the first slaves bought by British colonists were unloaded in 1619. It took a century or so to develop the justifications for slavery as a merely 'racial' matter. After a century and a half chattel slavery brought about a great civil was and after another century and a half racial injustice and prejudice have only been partially unwound.
Paraphrasing Nietzsche, it seems a lot easier for most of us to engage in a little-self serving 'pride' when we participate in society-sanctioned and largely unspoken bigotry and disengagement.