Published March 09. 2021 2:56PM
Bill Stanley, Special to The Times
At a time when racial justice is a, if not the, top priority in many American communities of various sizes, a number of those same communities have been torn apart by racial strife.
With one side prone to violence and destruction to vent its anger and the other side either over-responding with its own violence or, worse, doing nothing at all, divisions that should be healing only get worse.
We’ve heard the extremes such as defund the police and, from the other side, answer violence with violence. Neither will work, and so the fires of hatred and resentment merely intensify.