article_snippet.sent: And yes, this has resulted in troubling incidents and tragedies on both sides.
article_snippet.sent: So it's time to call this persistent meme what it is: A misleading, hyperbolic and dangerous distraction, one that shifts blame away from the real issues.
article_snippet.sent: By directing our attention to interminority conflict, it directs blame away from the structures that perpetuate gross inequality and toward individual problems.
article_snippet.sent: There's no denying that friction exists in the daily transaction between embattled communities trying hard to coexist under economic and social pressures.
article_snippet.sent: Among merchants, there's ever-greater recognition that The population of Baltimore and The population of Baltimore customers are tied by a red thread, surviving or failing together.
article_snippet.sent: It's easier to focus on attention-grabbing anecdotes rather than the long, hard work of adjustment and accommodation going on within and around communities.
article_snippet.sent: There's a far more complex and nuanced relationship between these two urban populations, one that is in an ongoing state of evolution -- and it deserves to be told, not buried under cliches and clickbait.