Morpheus I am not sure if you are aware of the real history of the city of baltimore that you live in a suburb or I am assuming or what that vibe has been like for years. (I have family who live where this is actually happening and I have the unique privilege of living through the newark riots of 1992 so I feel I have a grasp of the vide of oppression although I am far removed from it now).
Baltimore a Union state:
in 1910 adopted a residential segregation ordinance restricting black people to certain blocks in the city. The mayor and I quote stated Baltimore’s mayor proclaimed, “Blacks should be quarantined in isolated slums in order to reduce the incidence of civil disturbance, to prevent the spread of communicable disease into the nearby White neighborhoods, and to protect property values among the White majority.”
So your union state in 1910 prior to the Southern riots was also steeped with racism. Yes racism and inequality was part of the union states as well. In 1917 they formed a committee to encourage whites not to sell to blacks in certain areas.
In 1925, 18 Baltimore neighborhood associations came together to form the “Allied Civic and Protective Association” for the purpose of urging both new and existing property owners to sign restrictive covenants, which committed owners never to sell to an African American.
The FHA enacted measures to prevent blacks from byuying in subdivisions. So they all had to pack into ghettos and sub-standard living because of the segregation of the OFFICIALS OF BALTIMORE. This discrimination continued for decades forcing blacks in BALTIMORE into substandard housing / education systems etc...
Dare I say that an individual living in Newark slums or New York slums has more of a right to comment ACCURATELY on what the vibe is of Baltimore than someone who lives in a suburb or a section that will not see or truly be elected by the violence where it is taking place? I would think they would.