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Those riots took place on a different continent with a different culture. If you just stick to incidents inside the US, you will see an obvious rioting/looting roblem that is limited to a particular race. I don't blame the color of their skin, but I do blame their inferior culture. Yes, black culture in America is inferior.Newark riots (July 12-17, 1967)
The backdrop: Running almost a week in 1967, these New Jersey riots wound up killing 26 people and injuring hundreds more. Black residents of the city had grown tired and angry at repeated incidences of police brutality, as well as a growing feeling of being disenfranchised.
The final straw: A pair of white cops arrested a black cab driver for improperly passing them and took him to their precinct building, across the street from public housing. Residents of the project saw an incapacitated black man being dragged inside, and though the driver was taken to a hospital, rumor spread that hed died in police custody. With that, the civil unrest tipped over and erupted into a week of riots.
Riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 1968)
The backdrop: The killing of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the heat of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a dark moment among the many from that era. King was a leader for a generation, and his death angered and saddened millions.
The final straw: Kings assassination instantly gripped the nation and sparked riots in more than 60 cities. Washington, D.C., rioted for four days, with mass looting and injuries, and the swelling crowds at one point spread to within two blocks of the White House. Baltimore exploded into a riot, as well, and 5,000 soldiers from Fort Bragg deployed to the city to maintain order. Citizens in Chicago rioted and spread out over almost 30 blocks along West Madison Street, and the Illinois National Guard came in to assist police. Nationwide damages were well into the millions.
The Rodney King riots (April 29-May 4, 1992)
The backdrop: Rodney King, a black man on parole, led officers on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles before being caught and beaten. The beating was captured on the officers car cameras, and all four were charged with using excessive force. After a weeks deliberation, all four were acquitted of assault and three of the four acquitted of the excessive force charge.
The final straw: The verdict sent local black and Hispanic communities into a frenzy at the perceived injustice, and riots started to break out the evening of the verdicts reading and lasted for days. There were many retaliatory attacks, including Reginald Denny, a white truck driver whose vicious beating was captured by a live news camera from above. All told, the riots killed 53 people, injured 2,000, and cost close to $1 billion in damages.
Cincinnati riots (April 2001)
The backdrop: Racial tensions in Cincinnati had been growing for years, exacerbated by the regular deaths of young black men killed by police or in their custody. Of the 15 men who died this way between 1995 and 2001, three were unarmed. A 19-year-old black man named Timothy Thomas was killed running from police on April 7, 2001, and it was revealed that the officers acted improperly in the situation, including failure to give Thomas time to respond to the cops commands.
The final straw: The night Thomas was killed, almost 200 residents showed up to protest at a city council meeting, and protestors assembled outside city hall. After being dispersed, they began rioting, which triggered more outbreaks of violence and vandalism across the city. The riots lasted for days, becoming the largest disorders of their kind since the Rodney King riots nine years before. The officer who shot Thomas was eventually tried and acquitted in a criminal trial.
Watts Riots (August 11-15, 1965)
The backdrop: Race relations were strained all over in the 1960s, and Los Angeles was no exception. Growing tension between blacks and whites and between police and civilians added fuel to the fire.
The final straw: A white California Highway Patrol officer pulled over and arrested a black man for driving drunk, but the growing crowd of witnesses soon turned antagonistic. The mob grew angry, and when the CHP officer wound up arresting the mans brother (also in the car) and mother, full-flegded riots broke out in the Watts section of town. Fires, violence, and looting were rampant for days, and the riots would be the biggest in L.A. history until those in 1992. The National Guard eventually came in to help. At the end of the spree, 34 people were dead, more than 2,000 injured, and almost 4,000 arrested.
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So the point here is this: there is no monopoly on rioting by nation or by race. A riot by drunken sports fans or angry citizens over mistreatment by police is still a riot.
I understand perfectly the difference between "different continents and different cultures". And I also understand the history, root causes and psychology of inner city rioting, but there is also a pattern on this board with certain posters which is my point.
You are free to rationalize the phenomena of rioting any way that you wish. So I suppose using your logic, a drunken European soccer fan who sets fire to a stadium and engages in hooligan like behavior is part of a superior culture?
Bad behavior s bad behavior. I have personally witnessed it on the part of all races in this country and outside of this country.
It is interesting that some of the same characters here frequently bring up Africa when speaking of the black population in the U.S.
Statements like:
"Africa is backward and technologically inferior, therefore so are American blacks"
"American blacks should be grateful for being rescued from Africa."
So to be fair, why should I limit my examples of "cultural misconduct" strictly to what I have seen here?
Lastly, I am not sure what kind of back people you actually know, or if you are basing your blanket "inferior culture" theory on what you see on "Cops" and "Jerry Springer". So feel free to elaborate.