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In reply to the discussion: When the National Guard and/or federal assistance is sent in when a cop kills a black man [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)on any of those points.
I was 12 when the riots roared through Detroit, and my parents were terrified, since we lived on a main street that the National Guard was patrolling.
Summer school was suspended for a week...I was trying to advance 1/2 year to get on the September schedule...they let me advance, anyway. I never did get past the Civil War in history, though...instead, I got to see it in person.
Seeing the burnt out streets was sobering. It was the beginning of the end for the Motor City, an end that is accelerating now, as the poor are nagged and nibbled and displaced and deprived out to make room for the developers and their grandiose schemes.
It will not end well. Will it end at all? We may not live long enough to see. We have no leadership to combat the Empire, no tactics, no goals even. We need Occupy to return and grow.