While the police presence was too low for the recent uprising in D.C., those of you who attribute it to racism by comparing it to the presence during the black lives movement are forgetting the context. Are you forgetting what happened several days earlier in Minnesota, where the protests turned into riots and parts of the city were burned to the ground? The police admitted that they did not expect what took place at the capital, because they believed the crowd was supportive of the police. They were wrong. Why would they think this? Well, maybe because they were waving blue flags matter signs and not chanting, “F the Police:” Were they wrong in the assumptions? Obviously. But attributing it solely to racism, as Biden just did, does not do anything to help our nation. If Biden wants our country to heal and to help stop the divide, he too needs to stop stoking the flames division. I hope the next 4 years will be less partisan and more of a healing time for our nation. So far it does not appear that will be the path taken.