Chicago is Being Looted while I am Writing

The Chicago Police Department quietly made history when 28-year veteran Eric Carter was promoted to 1st Deputy Superintendent. Coming atop the promotion of 20-year veteran Barbara West to Deputy Superintendent in January, it now meant the department’s three highest-ranking officers were African-Americans — for the first time in CPD’s 184 years. And earlier overlooked was the history made when West became CPD’s highest-ranking African-American female officer ever. Lori Lightfoot, a Black Lesbian, is the Major. 

The Israeli papers are reporting  that 40 thousand American Jews registered for Aliyah, immigration to Israel. I do not what they are feeling, but those African mobs invading the wealthiest streets and looting the luxury items and bottles, even if there is no violence, unsettle me. I cannot understand why the political leadership is not resisting  but just moving out of the way. I am reading Naipaul's a City in the River Bend, where European are leaving Zaire (Belgian Congo). The speaker is a Muslim Indian from Zanzibar, totally apolitical. A sad story.