We are watching the death of our largest inner cities.

Many will now become Detroit which is a shame as so many with great effort had created at least some revival. All because of lazy and ignorant criminals.

Real activists know it takes time and commitment to foment real change. You cannot claim you want more businesses in underserved areas when your actions this week are going to cause many to never return and make the cost of returning too high for the rest. You cannot claim you want more money for issues important to you when you burn city property and cause huge bills for overtime for police, fire and ems as well as robbing the city of tax revenue from the destroyed businesses. You cannot claim you want more minority owned businesses when you burn those down along with the corporate ones. You cannot claim you want responsive leadership when you elect the same machines to office for 50 years and still the underserved live with bad schools, crime and poverty at the same level or worse for half a century.

The actions of animals the last week will not only result in a resurgence in white flight but of many middle class minorities who do not want to live in war zones where impetuous and ignorant people thing destroying their own city will change things. This will be a knife in the heart of many cities that will race to the despair level of Detroit. And the fools left will keep electing the same corrupt machines into office.