Suburban Riots

[Hermod]

I think we just get so used to "the riots" being the 1967 disturbance that we don't forget that a civil disturbance of a smaller size is a "riot" too. Think about the instances when a sports team won, or when teens battled police, or when hippies were attacked by cops. Maybe it's something peculiar to our local blind spots. Nobody really talks about the 1943 riot, even though it was almost as bloody as 1967, and was an actual "race riot."

1. Confined to a smaller area of the city.

2. Before TV news cameras.

3. Not too much property damage, mostly beatings and counter beatings.

[Detroitnerd]

I take it you're talking about the 1943 race riot?

1. Confined to a smaller area of the city.

2. Before TV news cameras.

3. Not too much property damage, mostly beatings and counter beatings.

4. Interferes with key myths about how wonderful the Greatest Generation was and how blacks have predilections for violence.

5. Provides counter-narrative to "and then 1967 happened and all the innocent whites fled the city."