Sunday, June 14

Asian-American Journalist Attacked by Protesters...

in Atlanta, while the film crew was taping last night's attempted freeway march and successful restaurant burning...

CNN’s Natasha Chen later recounted to Wolf Blitzer: “There were protesters very angry that we were recording this, and tried to block our cameras … and at that point they got aggressive, and our CNN camera was broken.” Chen added that the “protesters” had also tried to stop her from filming with her personal cell phone. She and her crew left the area.
The NYT news home page has details about the Atlanta shooting, and the police chief's resignation yesterday, but no pictures or stories about the Wendy's fire last night.  The building was declared a "total loss" as firefighters were prevented from reaching the scene until police cleared the crowd with non-lethal sprays and stun-gun effects.

It is thought that protestors tossed lit fireworks into the buildings, a tactic growing more common at night when the protests become riots and the destruction starts.  Eventually, the NYT will be forced to cover those news stories too.  It is FIT to fun on the home page, and since a story about the restaurant burning moved last night on the NYT wire page, you wonder when the Sunday staffers will wake up and update what is going on in Atlanta of late.

Does this look like justice to you?  How long until people are burned, along with property, by the non-peaceful protesters?  Does anyone have a plan yet for putting Pandora back in her box, or will we just let this burn out until November in the black areas, while the rest of us focus on the alleged police misdeeds and look away?

Btw --- YAY!  White "protestors" are being encouraged in their anti-racism efforts by being rewarded a paid, time-off national holiday for those with full benefits plans.  Juneteenth will help white employees join with their black colleagues for a day out of the office, spent with family at home, contemplating the sins of the nation on Juneteenth.

Athletes are demanding, and in some cases getting, the right to kneel during the national anthem, and Black Lives Matter logos printed on their playing fields.  IN some places, there is a push to do away with public police services, and for the wealthy to simply pool their resources and provide private security for their neighborhoods, properties, schools and businesses.  It might be more efficient, they think, than paying for security through a public-employee police union, and with less oversight.  Private services are rarely scrutinized by those public...

In the long run, I don't think the black protestors have any credible demands of White America to end "systemic racism".  Those in power now will simply buy them out, placating the less angry with holidays, unity rallies, and summertime gatherings.  Police will lose paychecks, some time will be served, more funerals will be held, and families will be provided for, for life, if they invest the fundraising proceeds and put the settlement amounts, after lawyers' fees, into conservative investments that can grow... (Like educational funds for the next generations?)

Let it burn out, then.
It's like with white-people shock-and-outrage after Sandy Hook:  some things you never saw coming and don't think society will ever survive.  But, for most, live indeed goes on, and while America remembers, little changes except we keep our fingers crossed that such evils will not strike us again.