So we are gonna ignore the riot thats happening in Baltimore

The "root" of all this is that this man was a repeat criminal with a record of drug dealing. Not raising your child properly and being ****ty parents is the root problem.

 

This. It all starts in the household with good parents.

 

And what did the picture at the top accomplish... What did those peaceful protest get them...

I don't agree with them but riots bring more attention because the world is watching. How can America stick their nose in other countries business and tell them how to live when they have citizens who are in such despair that they result to methods such as these.

 

You do not know what the civil right protests accomplished???

 

The "this is their last resort" sentiment is just disgusting. Violence against innocent people is never a solution to anything.

 

LOL. Don't get too worked up. Remember who you're addressing.

 

Hahahha oh wow, you serious?

 

We've been down this road before, but "those men who looted that tea" were not vandalizing some random local establishment or stealing tea because they wanted to go drink it with their boys. Comparing people who take advantage of situations like this to steal things they WANT from malls and liquor stores to people who destroyed that was an absolute symbol of their oppression is ridiculous.

 

Wipe the drool off your chin GZA.

 

It's a hard theory to buy that these youths (and it's mostly young adults) were acting out because of hopelessness. Like another poster stated earlier, the destruction these kids were doing is more in line with the destruction done after big college sports wins. It's just opportunism mixed with immaturity and stupidity. The rioters weren't the protestors or those involved in the funeral. The rioters were mostly kids getting out of high school.

 

Man stop with your nonsense you always blame Obama those people that are rioting aren't doing this because of those words from the President get real man.

 

Ummm, their cause is to rob and act violently. You are very confused to equate those who want equal rights to criminals. Some people take advantage of a protest to steal. Those people who do that have no cause but their own selfish motives.

The shameful thing is that you equate those who seek justice to those who are criminals.



Fact is that the area is a powder keg - many of these neighborhoods are.

You have two groups. One that seeks peaceful reform and a better life, and another which is completely disenfranchised and blames the upper crust of society and is just waiting to take it out.

If anything these kinds of riots should be a warning to us all. That if you put enough pressure on society, if something happens that could in fact spread and create a massive catastrophic collapse in society. As money continues to be sucked out of the lower classes and their lives continue to become harder, you will reach a breaking point. One so severe it could result in everything collapsing. Your precious guns may save your life in that situation, but it won't be a positive outcome for anyone.

 

Integration without liberation is meaningless. Black families are worst off now than they were than.

 

I don't know what that means. But it's always funny to me to hear white folks talk about how much of a success the civil rights movement was.

 

It bring unwanted attention and the people that are rioting have lost site of what the problem really is and all the world will see is the fact that they are looting ,burning and tearing up a community that is most likely not there's most of them are from the city anyway.

 

These people know boredom.

 

And now we find out that there are more like her she did a great thing and got dead in his *ss as it should have been.

 

There were 10,000 peaceful protesters.
A small group of them rioted and looted.

If a small group of cops are murdering people and getting away with it... It doesn't reflect all of the police force.
Then the same logic is to be applied to the protesters.
Right?

Right??

 

The Boston Tea party was just one non-violent (relatively, but it depends on how divorced from time and space you want to make the Tea Party) part of a otherwise violent movement. The Gaspee Affair occurred just a year earlier and it definitely involved looting and violence. There are so many incidents of violence leading up to the Tea Party and so many acts of violence after that it makes me wonder why in the present we focus mainly on the non-violence aspect. Can anyone recommend a book about the historiography of the American Revolution?

 

Are you sure about that... Because other world leaders are always pointing their fingers at how the US treats citizens (certain citizens) when the US runs around telling them how to treat their citizens. That's nothing new. You're looking at it simply from your point of view.