Former Marine asks why Blacks are given the power to rule and dominate U.S.

Fred Reed, 69, is a former Marine and Vietnam War veteran with a Purple Heart. He is a police writer, occasional war correspondent, and a former technology columnist for The Washington Times. His blog, Fred on Everything, is often satirical, opinionated, and refreshingly unconstrained by political correctness.

In the essay below, Reed asks questions and makes observations shared by many of us.

Black Power: A Done Deal

By Fred Reed • October 30, 2025

As I write America waits, again, to see whether blacks will riot, this time in Ferguson. Will they loot, burn, kill, and rape? The usual? The police in Ferguson prepare to protect stores from looters, as rioters seem to regard their insurrections as shopping opportunities. Will it come, we wonder tensely? Will the destruction get out of hand, spread to other cities?

It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of…