Progress is a choice, Baltimore.

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended. Again, O'Malley continues to impress.

In particular:

'There are many things that led to the riot that followed the tragic custodial death of Mr. Freddie Gray a year ago this spring. Among the causes: lack of jobs, rising unemployment, declining wages, economic desperation, unresponsive government, unprofessional and poorly supervised policing, and videos of black citizens being killed in North Charleston, Ferguson, the Bronx.

To these things I would add that, in much of the country, it seems evident that blacks are still considered to be 3/5ths of a human being.