You have probably heard the news that is dominating our tv channels about the riots that have been going on all the week in Baltimore, everything is given over to it.
A mother was watching it on television, and saw her son in a hoodie hurling rocks at the police, the video of her thumping him to kingdom come has been played over and over. Big headline in the Wall Street Journal said 'Bring in the Moms'.
A tv anchor said compassionately "she doesn't want him to be like Freddy Gray (the guy who started all this) she wants him to be like Ben Carson". Of course she does. He's the brilliant African American neurosurgeon who is running for President and pulled himself out of poverty to live the American dream.
The mother here has six children, the guy is her only son, and one of her daughters is going to Police Academy, she's obviously done her best to bring them up right.
There have been protests too in New York and other US cities but I can't see them getting any traction in Oklahoma City.
I got up because I couldn't get off to sleep, I suffer from insomnia, but although wide awake I still feel very tired.
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