The latest chapter of protest and resistance unfolding on the streets of America is reminiscent of a peat fire: a high flammability condition that springs up under pressure in parts of a field, rages for a period but then seems to die down, while in fact it is traveling under the surface, out of the spotlight, springing up full-force again in other locations at another time.
This peat fire sprang up as long ago as August 1965, in the Watts Riots that left 34 dead, 3,438 injured. It sprang up in 100 cities again after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in the spring of 1968. Forty-three died and another 3,000 were injured.
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