[WilliamofCarmichael]

Future? It's a shadow of the past.

• There were the military on the streets National Guard and regular army;
• true police did not have as much military hardware;
• I recall the Ohio National Guard on the streets of Cincinnati;
• people were killed by the dozens nationwide IIRC;
• IIRC virtually all major cities exploded.

As for "browning of America"

• it was the civil rights revolution;
• the media swooned over black Americans;
• I recall articles in weekly news magazines about how black skin is just better looking than white;
• I recall MSM employees reporting that it's not looting
  • the inner city residents were simply claiming the goods they paid for
  • by paying exorbitant prices to the white, racist store owners.

Here's what I remember. What Really Happened in Cincinnati

Riots of 1967 & 1968

The Avondale section of Cincinnati was mostly black residents and driving from downtown through Avondale was a popular commute route until..

On the first day of violence, as she was driving back to her apartment, a brick flew through the car’s open window and struck her. "Man, you hit her in the head!" one brick thrower admiringly exclaimed to his buddy. At the hospital, Schoonover recognized an acquaintance among the dozens of bloodied people waiting for care: a rioter had jumped into her acquaintance’s car and beaten her viciously with a brick.

There are many white commuters dragged out of their cars and beaten. IIRC one died.

[bert]

I would sharpen your thought, excellent thought, a little.

Shadow needs an adjective.

It is “It’s a pale shadow of the past” or maybe even “It’s a dim shadow of the past.”

Had it spilled into St Louis, it might matter.