They are at it again.  Yes, they are tired of being oppressed by the white establishment so they are going to burn down a few of their neighborhood stores, steal their neighbor’s cars and burn them and generally become lawless citizens.  It is much like the 3 little pigs telling the big bad wolf. ” you aint blowing our house down, cause we burned it down ourselves” .  Nanny  Boo Boo.  Does the wolf give a damn how your house came apart?  He got you out in the open and didn’t have to do a thing.  He just had to sit back and watch the little pigs set themselves back a decade or so in their march to justice and equality.

Will the establishment rebuild the city of Baltimore?  Yes.  Will it be a better city?  No.  Why?  Because they are going to have to spend the taxpayer’s money to rebuild something that was already there instead of building something new.  Instead of progress they will be involved in recovery.  Will the city be able to entice new businesses to come into certain areas of Baltimore and open new stores where others have been burned out?  I damned sure wouldn’t go there to seek my fortune.  What would fire insurance cost per month on a building that is being erected on a lot where the previous building was burned in a riot?  Oh, lets open a liquor store down there where the riots were.

I heard numerous people state on TV last night that the rioters and looters were just people who were fed up with police brutality, lack of jobs and opportunities and other social ills.  They werent grieving for the young man who died while in police custody.  They were just fed up with oppression.  I don’t believe that for a minute.  They were thugs, thieves, unsupervised high school students, etc, etc.  They can blame their situation on anybody but the problem is with themselves.  They lack moral fiber.  They lack a work ethic.  They lack desire.  They simply think it is easier to hang around on the streets and do nothing but bitch about how bad off they are.

I have long advocated that the USA needs a civilian work training corp like the CCC’s of the depression era.  An organization that can train people while working on the infrastructure of our nation.  Give some disadvantaged young people some of the things they desperately need.  Work ethic, purpose, skills. etc.  These riots could give us an opportunity to get something like this off the ground.  Let judges offer those who are so intent of ruining their cities an opportunity of doing good instead of going to jail.  20 years in prison or 5 years in our training program.?  20 years lying around getting prison tattoos or 5 years learning how to be a heavy equipment operator or a surveyor or an electrician or brick mason.  You would get a uniform under both scenarios, you would be fed but the thing is, the prison uniform and food just wouldn’t be as good.   You couldn’t change into your civies if you were in prison.  You can’t go out on Saturday night if you are in prison.  The pay is not the same.  You can’t build a better place to live if you are in prison.  You languish instead of flourish.

We will have to watch a month of media coverage and finger-pointing concerning whose fault this was, who should have done what and when and nothing will be accomplished. Our leaders will tsk, tsk, for a while and kick dirt and generally raise hell about the situation but nothing will be done.  It will lose front page coverage quickly because something will come up involving one or more of the folks running for office.  There will be a scandal about something someone should have disclosed but didn’t.  We will lose interest.  The folks who owned the liquor store wont lose interest but they wont get back what they lost either.

Tell the wolf he doesn’t have to blow, its gonna fall down by itself.

Gary