If you missed the
goings-on in the streets of San Jose last week outside a rally for presidential
candidate Donald Trump,
you might have been the only one. Protesters waved Mexican flags and were
caught on camera burning Trump hats, egging, punching and kicking Trump
supporters and calling them “racists” and “fascists”. One police officer was
assaulted. Video clips on YouTube show victims almost uniformly white and attackers
almost uniformly Hispanic.
A minor skirmish,
really, but we’re only in June. It’s a long way to November, and there’s no
guarantee the election of a new president — no matter who he or she may be —
will do anything to substantially ease racial tensions.