London riots remind of riots in Chicago, Watts and LA
The California National Guard and the U.S. Army and Marines were called in to help police. Fifty-three people died in the rioting and two thousand were injured. Damage was estimated as up to $1 billion. More than 3,000 fires were set and 1,100 buildings burned. Some black and Hispanic rioters targeted a Korean section of Los Angeles as racial tensions boiled to the surface. The perception is that America’s economy is in ruins and that at some point, paper money will be worthless. We live in a socialistic culture under President Obama in which we have trained people to expect handouts from the government. And when those handouts slow down or stop (and they will), it could create a climate that would lead to rioting.London Paper City Boy Column - News
Indeed, I was the focus of the article that appeared in the New York Times the next day, August 24, 1936, under a one-column, four-deck headline: "Rural Journalist Not Awed By City: A Bit Stunned by its Size, but She Finds Country and Urban Reporters
Could the riots that have terrorized London come to America? Could that happen in Tulsa, Oklahoma? The hope is that it never will occur. America has had its share of rioting in the lifetimes of most of those reading this column.
But they got battered by Manchester City and therefore the Schadenfreude was conspicuous by its absence in north London. The gloating was also fairly muted in the United camp, where Sir Alex Ferguson was uncharacteristically supportive of the
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