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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)murders by cops in Baltimore and in so many other cities around the country, you are free to do so.
There should be no poor in this obscenely wealthy country. And there should be no marginalizing of US Citizens because of their ethnicity, there should NOT be, but there is, that is a fact. And if you grow up knowing you are regarded as less than others and you see your community being brutalized by the very people who are supposed to protect you, if you are without hope, and all the peaceful protesting, the injustices, the attempts to get justice, fail, as you see it, it should not be surprising that this will happen.
And I'm not condoning it, but I am understanding it.
Same attitude in Britain when the pressure finally erupted in riots. Blindness towards what contributed to it.