GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1781
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
(the beginning of the poem “Gerontion” by T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965)
MEDIA SILENCE
Why does the mainstream media go ballistic when a cop, preferably white, kills a black man, but remain oblivious to the slaughter of black men in Chicago?
As of June 1, homicide victims in Chicago for 2021 by ethnicity wer…