“When people feel that their message is falling on deaf ears, they may resort to ‘forcing’ people to pay closer attention to their movement.”
It seems that you understand the language of rioting. (I am NOT saying that you condone violence. I am only saying you seem to understand their message.) Can you explain exactly what it is that the rioters goals are?
I feel really bad for African Americans and other minorities who live in the “hood”. The neighborhoods are filled with dangerous criminals, tons of garbage and destroyed buildings. They live in a western country that looks like a warzone.
For one semester, I attended a community college in a sketchy neighborhood. During that semester, at least every other week on the bulletin would be written that people had been murdered in the neighborhood. In fact, three times during the semester, the school was on lockdown because a murderer was nearby. Once, he was hiding in the parking lot
Another time, while I was in class, I found out that a murderer had ran through the school hallways while being chased by the cops. The third time, the cops had closed the nearby streets to traffic because a serial killer had escaped from a prison in a neighboring state and was hiding in buildings less than a black away from my school.
I was young and naive when I went to that college so I thought those experiences made the college more of an adventure while I noticed the black kids would be extremely on edge whenever these things happened. The time that the murderer was hiding in the parking lot, I was in the bathroom with some black girls who were crying, terrified to leave because they were worried that they might die. I reassured them that I wasnt afraid but, one of them explained that someone’s boyfriend (I cant remember if it was hers, a friend’s or a cousin’s boyfriend) had been murdered a few blocks from the school. I felt terrible, and I feel terrible that this is happening only 4 miles from my parents cushy neighborhood where I grew up.
I understand why they’re rioting. They live a couple miles away from the beautiful downtown and their neighborhood is dangerous and dilapidated and many people dont know who their father is. I get it that they think that the cards are stacked against them with it being exceedingly difficult to achieve a better life. To me, that sounds like a foolproof recipe to create an aggressive teenager. Still, other than the fact that they’re angry, I don’t understand the message of the rioters. Do they want more police? Do they want to abolish police? Do they want signs on the street? I’m pretty sure that they dont speak for the average black person or else we wouldn’t be seeing the same trouble makers showing up at every riot. I’m pretty sure that the silent majority of the black community would rather that these rioters not make it seem that the only language that blacks speak is that of violence.
One last thing, if the media and Democrat politicians had integrity, they would talk at least as much about the police that are killed by blacks then they talk about blacks killed by police.