Are Race Riots News?

In the middle of the 20th century, Sri Lanka had a level of mutual respect and even friendship between its majority and minority communities that was rightly held up to the world as a model. Yet this situation degenerated over the years into polarization and violence that escalated into a civil war that lasted for decades, with unspeakable atrocities on both sides.

All it took were clever demagogues and gullible followers. We already have both. What it will take to nip in the bud the small but widely spreading race riots will be some serious leadership in many quarters and that rarest of all things in politics, honesty.

webmaster@thenewamerican.com (Thomas Sowell) 17 Jul, 2012

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Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/item/12096-are-race-riots-news?
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