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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
19. It's not the same...this riot won't solve anything at all.
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 08:36 PM
Apr 2015

What you have here are pictures plastered all over TV of black youths trashing police cars, setting pharmacies on fire, and wearing gas masks while cutting holes in fire hoses. What exactly is the point that you are trying to get across? Because right now to most Americans....the Baltimore police are increasingly looking like the "good guys."

Also, these riots are mainly taking place not in country clubs or gated communities...they are taking place in poor neighborhoods with high concentration of minorities. Most of the businesses being looted are owned by blacks and/or employ black people. People who work at these places now no longer have a job. And the owners will get an insurance pay out and set up shop somewhere else where there is no threat of violence. That means the poor get poorer.

Many folks sit back in their easy chair and judge the actions of people they have no clue NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #1
I wish we could avoid violence. dballance Apr 2015 #4
And even that last part of what you say, while true, they werent defending anybody when they NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #6
K&R marym625 Apr 2015 #2
the am rev was not a peasant uprising. it was a tax revolt by the rich. KG Apr 2015 #3
KG, You are Correct dballance Apr 2015 #8
Oh please, the tea was thrown in the water. cwydro Apr 2015 #5
So you're saying the revolutionaries didn't loot the ships? dballance Apr 2015 #9
Ridiculous cwydro Apr 2015 #14
I've never read anywhere that the ships were burned. Only that the tea was dumped. cherokeeprogressive Apr 2015 #17
spurious. The Tea Party was a result of planned action cali Apr 2015 #7
Yes. cwydro Apr 2015 #15
I generally agree with your posts Cali. Not this time. dballance Apr 2015 #18
It's not the same...this riot won't solve anything at all. davidn3600 Apr 2015 #19
I was talking to sheshe about the Boston Massacre last year after the Ferguson showtrial was over. Major Hogwash Apr 2015 #10
false. The tea party was a carefully planned and executed action cali Apr 2015 #13
Nothing good can come from a land that has blood on it's hands.. HipChick Apr 2015 #11
Speaking of history...I'm reading a book that recounts a VERY similar wiggs Apr 2015 #12
And The Labor Movement: WillyT Apr 2015 #16
Let's not forget the slaughter of the native peoples who were living here LiberalEsto Apr 2015 #20
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