So?
Jello Biafra said “Tomorrow you’re homeless, tonight it’s a blast.” Visit a ‘food desert’ today and you might find people burned down the supermarket 30 years ago. The biggest losers from a riot are almost always the people who live there.
Jello Biafra said “Tomorrow you’re homeless, tonight it’s a blast.” Visit a ‘food desert’ today and you might find people burned down the supermarket 30 years ago. The biggest losers from a riot are almost always the people who live there.
The Jan 6th riots are a counterexample to that because they are a rare example of people driving long distances to participate in in a riot.
It boggles my mind that the common view is so devoid of history and context. Look at most countries, say France or Egypt, it seems the most common cause of a riot is that the cost of fuel goes up. In the U.S., on the other hand, the main cause of riots since at least the 1960s has been the perception (and reality) of police misconduct on the part of blacks.
People today, with a myopic viewpoint, like to imagine that the murder of George Floyd or some other recent event is a decisive turning point but if you stop to think about it there were the Watts riots, riots over the beating of Rodney King, etc. Go read the words of outstanding black men in the past like Booker T. Washington and you find many of them were resentful of how they were treated by the cops.
It's a chronic problem and the most certain way to make sure it persists is to treat it as if it was an acute problem.