There's a narrative out there blaming our current president for the chaos unfolding in Baltimore, as well as the violence, racial and otherwise, visited upon our citizens in recent years.I find it egregious we would make these social ills out to be a partisan issue. Racism is racism, no matter who's in the White House. And to think killings and riots are the result of an Obama presidency is to ignore history, whether it's Watts in '65, the Hundred Years War in the 14th century or gladiatorial Rome.
Evil, angst and lawlessness know no historical particularity. Whether we attribute grave injustice to the biblical assertion of humanity's fall, or xenophobia, or blatant racism, we are in need of prayer a lot more than political finger-pointing.
Lord have mercy.
Obama is no more responsible for Baltimore than Bush was for 9/11. Can public servants be part of the solution? Of course. But I can't bear another electoral season with the self-aggrandizement of accusation as the foundation for our public discourse.
If public servants weren't also public figures, the social-media invective hurled at both Democrats and Republicans would be prima facie libelous and slanderous, if not absurd. Heaven help us.