Violence: The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity

A police chief said he knew what was responsible for a tsumami of violence: Sarah Palin. And don’t call them flash mobs. “That is just another way to deny and marginalize what is happening,” he writes. The cases are too frequent too ignore. And it is not just Philadelphia and Chicago and New York. That’s what makes it strange: it is also happening in some very unlikely places. In Iowa, more than 100 black people roamed the grounds of the Iowa State Fair beating and stealing. A police report said some of the black people had declared it was “Beat Whitey Night.” In Wisconsin, a group of almost 100 black people looted a convenience store, then beat up a group of white teenagers. One of the black people stood over a victim and said “White Girl Bleed a Lot.” The list goes on: Indianapolis. Denver. Rochester. Boston. Miami. Houston. Atlantic City. Rehoboth Beach. Dover, Delaware. Charlotte. San Francisco. And on and on and on.