[Brandess]

I think that is a very narrow-minded question. You can’t generalize and say that ‘black folks riot when they don’t get their way.’ I am a senior at a Big Ten University and have experienced firsthand two riots in the four years I have been here, and believe me, the students were neither black nor rioting for any specific reason.They were rioting just to riot. The riots you are probably referring to were a result of what they believed to be an injustice (i.e. Rodney King’s assaulters not being found guilty). Also, what many people tend not to know is that there was a very large proportion of the Latino community involved in those riots. So in short, you could also ask the same questions about whites, given the recent riots on various college campuses such as Colorado University, Iowa State, Penn State, the universities of Wisconsin at Whitewater and Oshkosh, Southern Illinois University, the University of Delaware, Michigan State, Washington State, Plymouth State, the University of Akron and the University of New Hampshire, and Woodstock ’99. And the reasons for these riots? Usually from the results of a football game or an enforcement of underage drinking. On the other hand, the people of Cincinnati were angered because of 15 black men shot and killed by police since 1995. It’s just something to think about.

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Name : Brandess, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Age : 21, City : E. Lansing, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,