Mostly Peaceful
I have heard it said and I have read it in print. The protests involving brick throwing, glass breaking, fire, rape, murder, etc. are mostly peaceful.
I find it difficult to use the words protests and peaceful to begin and end the second sentence of this essay due to my understanding of the words lingering betwixt them. Protest is defined by peacefulness. Protest ceases to exist and Riot comes into being with the first act of violence.
The only way I can make sense of the second sentence is chronologically. Two examples of what I mean.
1) The morning of December 7, 1941, was mostly peaceful. The Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor until 8am.
2)The morning of September 11, 2001, was mostly peaceful. The first plane did not hit the World Trade Center until 8:46 am.
Most of the hours of the morning or the day pass by peacefully and that is where the media coverage ends. And the (anti)Social-Media, fountainhead for anger, hatred and purposeful ignorance, easily overlook the part which is not the ‘mostly’. The Riot. The Infamy. The Cowardice.
If we had the media in 1941 we have now, Pearl Harbor would be a ‘debunked’ conspiracy theory.
