John Kass Contact Reporter
Riots broke out in Milwaukee the other day, and before that in other cities, each erupting with familiar sights: fire and pain, anger and looting.
It will likely happen again in some other urban area, perhaps after a black man is killed by a police officer, whether the shooting is justified or unjustified. Was the victim a known criminal pointing a gun at a cop? Or not? These are reasons, but reasons really don't matter now, do they?
The fire is the thing. The anger is the thing.
And all we're doing now is waiting for the next one.
Our media high priests — the guardians of the political establishment — come to us with reasoned explanations for the urban tinderbox.
They tell us of hopelessness and despair. But ignore the one thing that binds them all, the one inconvenient truth of things.
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