BALTIMORE RALLY: BURN DOWN STORES TO GET THEM ‘OUT OF OUR COMMUNITIES’

During a large rally in front of Baltimore’s City Hall, a young man introduced as “Brother Rose,” in winding and sometimes incoherent speech, praised the burning of a CVS store at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues. 

“America didn’t care until we started affecting things they profit from… What we saying, ‘Let’s get you out of our communities.’” 

He also said, 

“Without us running (unintelligible) Mondawmin Mall [the site of mass looting on Monday], taking back from the stores that have taken our dollars for how long, and not giving back to the community in any type of way. We made a statement. The world heard us then. They heard that the youth of Baltimore are going to get justice by any means necessary.” 

He also advocated shutting down restaurants and businesses that were protecting their investments. “If they protected themselves against you, protect yourselves against them. Don’t spend your money there. Don’t give them no reason to be in your neighborhood. Kick them out.”

I found the following genius commentary at Facebook this morning;

Rather than ridicule this for the imbecility it represents, we should use it as a springboard to begin a dialogue about complying with it - full compliance, with separate countries each self-governed by the kind of people and the kin of guiding ideologies they desire. Let them have Baltimore, Detroit and even California and New York - and let the rest of us live in peace in our own communities too. 

And yes, we will build a wall and use border enforcement to keep you all in your own community that you so desperately desire. The truth is, we desperately desire it too. Let's talk.