MSNBC: 100 National Guard troops being dispatched to Downtown Baltimore...

[longship]

4. In 1967 Detroit we were all happy to see the Nat'l Guard.

By "all" I mean everybody who wanted an end to the looting, the burning, the snipers shooting at firemen trying to put out the fires, the smoke in the skies all over the city. And the Guard did a wonderful job. We'd wave at them when they drove by the house. The whole neighborhood did, both black and white, because the city was tearing itself apart while it burned. We were all very scared. My integrated neighborhood on the NW side of the city was united on this.

Another OP had the audacity to state that he would disobey the curfew in Baltimore because it was totalitarianism. If he had done that in summer, 1967 in Detroit, he might have earned himself an uncomfortable night in jail at the hands of the Guard. Well deserved, I might add. Or maybe they'd have just told him to return home.