Do you recall in recent days the notion what some folks had suggested about the use of the term “thugs” to describe the looters and rioters in Baltimore?

They contended the term contained racist intent, given that the rioters were reacting to the death of a black man who was being arrested by police officers.

Well, it didn’t … at least as far as I am concerned.

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/crime/article/Faces-of-Twin-Peaks-biker-shooting-in-Waco-begin-6271042.php

Check out the pictures of the thugs being identified in the wake of the Waco biker gang shootout. Thugs are thugs, no matter the color of their skin.

Yes, the bikers — all of whom are white guys — are every bit the thugs that the Baltimore looters are thugs.

Heck, the biker gang members likely are more thuggish than the rioters, if you consider that the biker gang members spend many of their waking hours committing acts of thuggery. Many of the looters in Baltimore might lead otherwise normal lives. Maybe their behavior was an anomaly. Their behavior was thuggish nevertheless.

Not these guys. The Bandidos, the Hell’s Angels, the Outsiders and a whole host of other gangs conduct themselves quite badly — all the time.

You didn’t see it here first. However, I’m happy to call these guys what they are — garden-variety thugs.