Suburban Riots

[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."