Do #WhiteRiotsMatter More than #BlackRiotsMatter?
For Chicago, the May weekend weather was lovely. After a cold winter and cool early spring, Saturday and Sunday were cloudy, windy, and quite warm. So most residents took advantage of the fine day in walking, jogging, hanging out in the park and beaches, and sitting on their front porches. But others, whose usual activities do not depend on the weather, just took advantage of the lack of snow and bitter cold to bump up their usual behavior according to this shocking (well, to me) Chicago Tribune headline.
49 people shot in Chicago over weekend: 'Whole bunch of shots'
Chicago's violent weekend began Friday afternoon when, in the span of three hours, three people were shot in Englewood, another person was wounded in East Chatham and an 81-year-old woman and a relative were hit by gunfire as they sat on a porch in Gresham, taking a break from a wake.
It ended early Monday morning in the South Shore neighborhood when a man was shot and seriously wounded just yards from where one man was killed and another wounded hours earlier.
The gunfire scattered two dozen people who had gathered at the murder scene as police drew their weapons and scanned a vacant lot with their flashlights.In most of these crimes the perps -- as the TV shows would say -- were black; the exception was in a Hispanic neighborhood. I am quite certain that in all of these incidents the victims and the shooters were of the same racial and/or ethnic background, thus depriving such local godly civil rights leaders/shakedown artists as Rev. Jesse Jackson Senior and Rev. Michael Pfleger plus national godly civil rights leader/shakedown artist Rev. Al Sharpton an opportunity for hogging the limelight by blaming the usual suspects for oppression and hopelessness and thus hauling in more guilt/extortion cash. But Pfleger tried, accusing the parents and their children for behaving irresponsibly and demanding better behavior. Ha! ...
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