The Violence That Created Baltimore | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

May 2, 3015

“When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

An April 29, 2015, New York Times article written by journalists (sic) Richard A. Oppel Jr and Alan Blinder, bore this headline: “Curfew Appears to Bring Calm to Baltimore After Days of Unrest.”

Days of unrest.

Imagine that. Imagine if life for the non-White residents of Baltimore only involved days of unrest. Not weeks or months or years or decades. Not even centuries… as the Susquehannocks -- the original inhabitants of that geographical area -- can attest to.

In 1600, as many as 7,000 Susquehannocks lived in about 20 villages in what we now call Baltimore. Within one century, a lethal combination of smallpox, colonial conquest, and white supremacy had reduced that number to 300. In 1763, the last 20 or so surviving Susquehannocks were massacred by a white lynch mob, thus rendering the tribe extinct.

That final act of genocide was probably labeled: days of unrest.

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1. K&R

The article's conclusion: The United States is built on and based on and functions on overt and covert violence. Any discussion of violence, non-violence, and social justice that ignores this reality is an exercise in deep denial... is so true.

This country was founded on two huge acts of violence: genocide and slavery. Yet we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. Lofty words that fly I the face of reality from 1620 to 2015. From its inception, the US has been an exercise in hypocrisy, and it is reaping the whirlwind of that lie. The current, constant war status; income and racial inequality; and international hubris will surely be its unraveling. And as with all past empires, the fall will be ugly and protracted.