10-17-2010, 12:58 PM
Acer wrote: ...New Yorkers turned a riot into a catalyst for change."
So, what's happening in Germany? What is the German leadership doing to support integration? What are the immigrant communities doing to actively integrate themselves?
After the riots, corrupt New York politicians came to realize the benefits of having large groups of armed Irishmen patrolling the streets and beating people who didn't vote the party line.
I'm sure some people in Germany are trying to figure out how to exploit angry Muslims in a similar fashion.
BTW: For all the "melting pot" changes going on in NY, Catholics and Jews were still effectively forbidden from owning land or holding public office in NY until well into the last century. The draft riots were partly a continuation of a series of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants and the militias employed by the city being mostly Protestant actually sought out enclaves of Catholics to slaughter them.
Now THAT starts to sound a bit like the German approach with their Muslim immigrants. Maybe they're copying the American model after all!