Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some speculated that Gates, who is despised by the black community, was deliberately holding his men back. "They want us to burn ourselves out," claimed a caller to KJLH, a black radio station that opened its airwaves to listeners after the city erupted. Another caller noted that residents in white neighborhoods were able to deploy private security forces to keep the rioters at bay. "Who can we call to get someone to protect our house...
Would that the nation's leaders, of both races, could find such plain but heartfelt words. Then perhaps the quiet that will return after the fires and the fury burn themselves out -- whenever that is -- could cover healing. Which would make it very unlike the totally deceptive quiet that preceded the King verdict...
...black majority, fear and fury do not translate into approval of -- let alone participation in -- rioting (for that matter, Hispanics and whites joined the looters in some cities). Apart from moral considerations, blacks realize that it is their neighborhoods that burn and mostly their lives that are lost. Nearly every black leader of note voiced some variation on these comments from Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "We vigorously condemn with all the force we can muster what has happened. Rioting, arson, looting and murder solve nothing...
...most prominent lawyers in Los Angeles. People leaving the protest rally at the First A.M.E. Church on Wednesday night, he relates, were confronted by rioters who told them, "Nothing you're talking about is going to do any good -- so come with us and let's burn." Some rioters even shot at the churchgoers. "Black people shooting at other black people," says Cochran disconsolately. "Nobody can talk to the people in the streets. Even their parents can't talk to them. The only thing they're going to understand is a show of force, and I hope...
...wrappers. Serious smokers debate tobacco blends and cigar construction almost as passionately as wine lovers worry about tannin content. Consolidated Cigar executive vice president Richard L. Dimeola offers some tips to the novice: if it draws too easily, it was "underfilled," and the air pockets will cause a fast burn and a hot smoke. If possible, check the cigarmaker's "leaf inventory." If the company isn't stocking enough tobacco to skip a bad harvest, its smokes will be uneven over time...