August 1943, rioting breaks out in Harlem and the Detroit riot is invoked.
The spark is familiar to our times, a white policeman shoot a Negro soldier [newspaper terms for ethnicity of 1943].
The June Detroit riot gets called out in somewhat of a "were not as bad as Detroit" fashion, claiming this riot was not a race riot.
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August-03-20, 07:51 AM #11
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