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Is that when they mention the word "gangs", it is only to describe groups of black people.
Nobody dares calls the Nazis a gang, but that is exactly what they are, marching around in their high boots and uniforms and shaved heads, waving around the swastika.
This was a gang of white supremacists that was allowed to march into a neighborhood, in a state where they were not from, and taunt its citizens. Do you think the Bloods and Crips would be allowed to do the same in Beverly Hills?
This is another example of media bias, no different than black people "looting" and white people "finding".
And everybody is talking about the nazi's constitutional right to march, but where do we draw the line? This is a group based on hate, inspired by Hitler.
When the Nazis marched into Paris in WW II, allied troops stormed Normandy on D-Day to win Paris back. Did we do that to allow the Nazis to march into Toledo sixty years later? When does the right to demonstrate impede upon the right for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? When does it cross the line and become racial harassment?
Tensions are already running high in America’s black neighborhoods since Katrina, which proved to the world that race relationships in this country have not progressed as much as we like to tell ourselves.
After Katrina, we saw what black people in this country have known for decades; that the life of a black person is worth less than the life of a white person.
Then you get a gang of Nazis marching into Toledo taunting its black citizens about “white power” and waving swastikas. And this is done with the approval of city officials under the protection of the police.
And everybody just expects the black people to just laugh it off, or to take the higher ground and not respond, just go on with your daily routine, don’t mind the Nazis marching through your neighborhood.
Most of the black people who threw rocks and bottles and engaged in violence were young men in their teens and twenties. For those of us who have reached 30 and beyond, we all know that “rational thinking” comes with age and experience. We all know young people, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity, are prone to impulsive behavior.
I’m sure a lot of these rioters were actual criminals with records. Hell, they might have even belonged to a “gang”. But I’m sure there were others that got caught up in the mob mentality because they were angry and tired of being second-rate citizens.
And I'm afraid Toledo was the beginning of more to come in this country.
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