Reckoning With the Riots – American Greatness

The showdown is coming over urban violence in America. The continuing rioting and destruction erupting in new cities every few days is almost certain to provide yet another profound demarcation of opinion over how to govern the United States and address the problems that have so stirred the country since the killing of African American George Floyd by a white Minneapolis policeman on May 25. America s toleration of a completely unjustifiable level of general violence compared to anything in its past demonstrates considerable progress in civility and restraint in the past 50 years.

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This is Conrad Black. His memory seems a bit off. The current riots are bad but not nearly as bad as those from 1968 to 1973 or so were. These aren’t the Days of Rage. They’re more like the Days of Being Extremely Annoyed. Nobody’s planting bombs like the Weathermen did. Nobody’s kidnapped an heiress (or person of inheritance) like the SLA did. No world-historical figures assassinated like Kennedy and King were. No overseas war like Vietnam was, unless you count Iraq and Afghanistan, which don’t seem to be in the picture at all, possibly because the peaceful rioters don’t want to piss the veterans off too much. But still, the rioters should be quashed, like a wet sponge on a burning ember.