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

[longship]

6. I was born in Detroit in the 40's.

As far as I knew, the Guard acted very well. They certainly were friendly when they cruised through the neighborhood. We'd wave; they'd wave back. But the city was self-destructing before everybody's eyes and ears and noses. The smell of smoke was everywhere as buildings burned, the fires defended by snipers who fired at the firemen attempting to extinguish them. That is what happens when racial tensions are so strained that things utterly snap. No hope. LBJ called out the National Guard and we were happy to see them.

I fear that the police actions against unarmed blacks could take us back to those scary ten days in the summer, 1967 in Detroit. If somebody does not do something about this, Baltimore may be just a taste.

It makes me very, very sad.