At the end of 2015 the Baltimore riot will be featured in every periodical’s “year in review”. Each publication will reproduce a popular gang photo that circulated during the unrest.
The photograph captured rival gang members posing with members of the Nation of Islam, some headlines promoted it as a “gang truce” others indicated it was “gang unity to provide safety and prevent looting”.
Ignore the oxymoronic imagery of a separatist group and street gangs combined with the concepts of unity and safety. Never mind the fact that a truce is temporary. Forget the interview with the gang member who said, “We didn’t have a truce or a treaty; we just had men respecting men as men.” (Whatever that means.) Forget the fact that The New York Times reported, a few months after the riot, that murders in Baltimore have “risen to a level not seen in decades”, and ignore the fact that the photo was an example of positive meaninglessness. (This is when intentions are praised for being positive but there is no implementation of anything meaningful. And the promotion of positivity by gang apologist is meaningless.)
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