Riotous Times in America

Riotous Times in America

When is a riot not a riot? When it’s “borderline,” of course. When does civil unrest have a racial component? Hardly ever since that component is rarely reported, of course.

It’s not even summer but things are rapidly heating up in more ways than one, a year before former Clinton adviser, James “The Snake” Carville, has predicted “imminently possible” civil unrest. Feel free to translate that dire prediction as riots in the streets.

Appearing on ”Imus in the Morning,” Carville predicated his remarks on the continuing high unemployment rate and the piddling job growth and despite President Barack Hussein Obama’s efforts to paint the dismal job figures as little more than a bump on the road to recovery. The president didn’t mention VP Joe Biden’s astute description last spring–that would be 2010–that America was set to experience “Recovery Summer.” So much for Biden and recovery.

Certain segments of society are way ahead of Carville insofar as “civil unrest” is concerned but don’t dare call them rioters.

In Bessemer, Alabama, police were forced to temporarily shutter the Alabama Adventure theme park after chaos broke out with numerous fights throughout the park.

One park patron ”described it as a ‘borderline riot.’ He witnessed at least eight different fights, including chair throwing in the water park, and at least three people taken out of the park on gurneys, . . . ’Every time we turned around, there was a fight.’ “

Craig Randolph, vice president and general manager for Alabama Adventure, saw it all differently saying, “We did have a few kids get out hand. We had some scuffles here and there,” and couldn’t speculate on whether anyone was injured or arrested. (http://bit.ly/jivjIu)

Presumably, the ambulances and gurneys were purely precautionary and certainly not indications of injuries sustained during a “borderline riot.”

Were Bessemer the only riot locale, James Carville could be correct, that civil unrest, a euphemism for widespread, uncontrolled violence, isn’t due until next year.

In fact, though not nearly on the scale of the 6-day Watts upheaval in 1965 or the deadly mayhem that followed the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rodney King chaos or the numerous other incidents of unrest in America’s history, smaller scale riots have been occurring with disturbing frequency of late.

They’re all the more disturbing in view of official malfeasance by indifference and distortion and because most of the current violence is being committed by black teens two plus years into President Obama’s proclaimed “post-racial America.”

(Obama also said in Dreams from My Father, pp. 99-100, that he disapproved of what he called, “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites but that may be a whole other story.)

For example, what are being termed “random attacks” by black Chicago street gangs are becoming less and less random. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4757.)