In the 1960’s, blacks rioted all over the country. It is assumed now it was in response to the assassination of MLK, but that was not always the case. The Watts Ghetto Riot was over a traffic stop. No one says it, but our rulers have put a lot of effort into riot prevention since the 1960’s. Generous welfare and housing used to be called riot insurance by some snarky writers.it used to be understood that the social welfare system was about keeping the cities from burning to the ground.

Like the 1992 Los Angeles Ghetto Riot, Ferguson is a reminder that money is not always enough. The rulers have to offer some blood. Not their blood, of course, but the blood of a subject they can use as a proxy. In 1992, the courts needed to send those cops to jail, maybe letting one of them get murdered in prison. That’s what the ghetto wanted, so when they did not get it, they rioted.

This story from Detroit is how it is done.

Theodore “Ted” Wafer, a 55-year-old Dearborn Heights man whom a jury found guilty of second-degree murder Aug. 7 for the porch-killing of 19-year-old Renisha McBride of Detroit, has been sentenced to between 17 and 32 years in prison.

Wafer is accused of shooting McBride when she appeared on his front porch last November. It was about 4:40 a.m. in the morning. McBride, whom the medical examiner said had a .21 blood-alcohol level and marijuana in her system, struck a parked car and fled the scene blocks away nearly four hours earlier.

Wafer said McBride pounded violently on his front and side doors, he feared it was multiple home invaders outside attempting to enter and potentially kill him.

Wafer, armed with a shotgun, unlocked his front door, opened it and shot McBride through the locked screen door when she appeared feet away.

His attorney, Cheryl Carpenter, argued self defense.

Of course, this is about race. The old white guy has to be punished or the blacks could riot and no one wants that. The blood sacrifice to the gods has been replaced by the blood sacrifice to the black. In a sane world, this issue never sees a courtroom, because a drunk black pounding on anyone’s door in the middle of the night is assumed to be a risk to life and limb.

Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder, meaning the jury believed Wafer intentionally killed McBride or intentionally inflicted great bodily harm resulting in her death; and manslaughter for aiming a firearm at a person resulting in death.

He received a minimum 15 years for second-degree murder charge which made his manslaughter punishment, 7 to 15 years, moot. Additionally, Wafer will serve two years for felony use of a firearm.

Wafer claimed during trial he never meant to kill McBride and he and didn’t know the shotgun was loaded.

Carpenter, who became emotional for a few minutes while arguing why the judge should divert from the sentencing guidelines, said the full minimum sentence is a veritable life sentence for Wafer, who would be 72 in 17 years.

That’s the point. When an old white guy shoots a young black women in a place like Detroit, the old white man must be killed, unless he was under extraordinary danger from the young black person. That’s just the way it is and the people in that courtroom knew it. No one wants to see the old man die, but that beats a riot. Maybe his case gets appealed and in five years he is quietly released for health reasons. Maybe he gets shanked in the showers. All that matters now is the ghetto got their blood.