“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Garrett Epps hears a rhyme:
The struggle in the 1850s arose out of the federal government’s determination to return Black Americans to slavery (via the Fugitive Slave Act–ed.) even after they had escaped to the free North. What is happening on the streets of American cities—and most particularly, now, on the streets of Los Angeles—carries uncanny echoes of that decade-long battle, which ended in secession and Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
