My experience with the black community, both in Chicago and elsewhere, suggests your fears are unfounded. Yes, there have been episodic acts of interracial violence, and there is an undertow of long-simmering malice. But many blacks are simply not radicalized enough to stage a full scale “Armageddon” over some failed Chicago pol, even if he is the first (or second) black president. The economic low end is preoccupied with the daily struggles of life in the hood, and the more well off are preoccupied with jobs and families like everyone else. The drive to do the work of a real revolution, with all the personal pain and privation that entails, simply isn’t there in any but a handful of hardcore militant activists, far less than the critical mass required for serious societal destabilization.
So if there IS a big disruption, the seeming beginnings of a real race war, I guarantee you, it will have been manufactured at some level. Not saying there wouldn’t be sympathizers in the black community, but most would rather watch it on tv than be part of it. Our objective should be to give them nothing to watch.
If only 1% of the urban black population takes up arms or otherwise seeks to create chaos, our cities would be unlivable. If AG Holder decides to let it slide for 2-1/2 months it might be a long time before it’s fixed.