Anyone truly interested in how many people of color view rioting would do well to read the following. It is a disertation by Melinda Contreras Byrd, titled "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE."
http://www.theotherside.org/resources/mlk/byrd.html
I have been doing a search for the tale of the percussion bomb dropped on a house by police in a black Philadelphia neighborhood. I forget the year this took place. It is pretty well buried, though.
sweetcomplication
I have been dipping into the site you suggested. An awful ot of material there. I was surprised it did not mention the Philadelphia police bombing.
edgarblythe wrote:sweetcomplication
I have been dipping into the site you suggested. An awful ot of material there. I was surprised it did not mention the Philadelphia police bombing.
May 13, 1985, edgar. These are not unbiased sites, but here's some info:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1057/move.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/dregeye/move6.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/index-bb.html
http://www.freepeltier.org/peltier13.htm
Please check out following link for latest news re Benton Harbor:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/6120391.htm
"We're just tired. We're sick of them killing us,"
"no justice, no peace,"
"It's completely - economically, spiritually and geographically - isolated," Kotlowitz said of Benton Harbor. "I'm not surprised at the anger - I felt it. You could tell it had a lot more to it than one individual's death."
Thanks, snood. Exactly what I couldn't find.
snood wrote:Scrat wrote:snood wrote:...came into this thread with his mind made up, closed and bitter - will probably leave that way.
I can't help thinking that this describes you, snood. I don't mean that as an insult, but it seems clear to me that you lean towards absolving the rioters of responsibility for their own actions and have a prejudice towards assuming the cops are at fault in this.
Now, if I am wrong in that, please simply tell me. I will take your word on it. Honestly. But from what you've written thus far in this thread, that is the impression I get.
Tell you what - meet you halfway. I won't read into your words and you don't read into mine - we'll comment on
the story as it develops, and say what we think about
that, and not each other. Can you handle that?
Sure. I'm unsure why you can't just tell me I'm wrong, if I am, but sure, I can handle that.
I agree with you. Everything I have read in the papers and seen on the net seems to point to a couple of hundred teenaged hoodlums attacking police and firefighters. This leaves several thousand non violent civilians just trying to live. Why was the motorcyclist trying to outrun the police ? Another point is the dead mans brother came out and said he has compleate faith in the police department there.
Thank you, Braeloch. Most insiteful.
I'm beginning to suspect something, but I will wait for the ones in charge of the site to make any determination.
As suggested from the beginning, I have been trying to keep abreast of this story; to that end, please check out the following URL - even has a slide show, if anyone requires further inducement:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WMAQ/A1665115.asp
NPR's Talk of the Nation program is doing a segment on Benton Harbor right now, and they began this segment by speaking with a mininster in Benton Harbor (she was formerly the director of the "twin cities" NAACP), and an author, Alex Kotlowitz, whose book, The Other Side of the River examines the two towns of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. Mr. Kotlowitz lives across the lake from these two towns in Chicago.
