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National Guard troops to the city and the
Governor Larry Hogan declared a state
of emergency. She also issued a citywide
curfew from 10pm-5am. Schools were
closed and a major league baseball game
was cancelled. People were involved in
physical altercations with the police.
Other cities took to the streets in protest
of Gray’s death, Chicago, Minneapolis,
Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle,
New York and other cities. The news
media did their best to frame the
protesters as ‘thugs.’ People on social
media also influenced by the media, said
the same. But white Americans could
not understand what was going on. They
didn’t see what the problem was. They
live in a different America: Blacks live
the effect of segregation and poverty.
We can never forget who created our
‘ghettos.’ We know who cut funding to
our school systems and who does not
offer us employment. We live in a
different America. Whites (and some
Blacks) do not understand that Blacks
live in a police state, where policies and
mass incarceration have removed so
many Black men (and women) from
society, creating an American residential
segregation. All this has to do with the
eruption from Black communities across
the nation. The media have shown the
burning, the looting, but failed to spend
any time interviewing or showing the
Black men of the Nation of Islam who
guarded businesses in the community,
telling the protesters not to burn and
loot. Nor did they show the community
coming out in large numbers after the
protests, and sweeping the streets,
cleaning up their co