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PREVIOUSLY
Baltimore's
Little
Italy (Balamur's Lil-itly) comes to mind here (obviously). As
related by a resident, during the
free-for-all rioting that followed
MLK's assassination in 1968; when downtown business's in cities
across
America were being burned, residents of Baltimore's Little Italy
section did something that's stayed with me.
The residents, as if acting with a single mind, showed up on the
streets bordering their enclave, armed to the teeth with assorted instruments. If that was not
message enough, Black gangs
approaching were told in no uncertain terms
that to cross the street would end with them being kilt dead.
While the nearby Jewish section known as Corned Beef Row, on Lombard
Street west of Central Avenue, was ravaged, and never recovered, no
Italian restaurant was burned, and nobody had been hurt.
Interestingly, Nancy D'Alessandro's family
would almost certainly have participated. It's what came to mind.
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What
we think of men today is far different from what men used to be, and
what men were meant to be. Men were once warriors and farmers. They
were leaders and kings. They were strong, smart, and dangerous. They
conquered and they defended. There was a time when the TV remote wasn’t
yet invented and the sword was handled in its stead. A time when a
man’s ambition determined how high he would rise, how many men he would
lead, and how many lands he would conquer.
Conquer. 8
Lessons in Manhood
Them's
my thoughts. My DNA says my forebearers were Nordic stock who
invaded
Britain. Whatever it is, I still have a semblance of Alpha male
left.
Enough that watching what's happened to my country in the past 20 years
(especially) leaves me unsettled and itchy. Cannot help it. Now,
more pointedly, when I see Al
Sharpton's imported Helter Skelters looting stores in Baltimore,
and attacking cops (many of whom were sent in unarmed by the city's
mayor), I just cannot come to grips with why the police, and store
owners, are not on the roofs shooting the sumbitches dead? Like
Little
Italy residents did in 1968. I would. And it would be lawful as long as
I was protecting my business, or family from an imminent threat.
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