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Why do black folks riot when they don’t get their way?
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Name : Dan-C27324, Gender : M, City : Omaha, State : NE, Country : United States,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,Haven’t you been watching the news in the Middle East? Haven’t you seen all the soccer riots in Europe, going back as long as I can remember? Haven’t you see the news of the white Argentinians rioting? OK, maybe you don’t watch international news. How about all the white Cubans who rioted after Elian Gonzales was given back to his father? How about all the old newsreels of white Southerners who rioted to keep blacks from integrating? Are you a sports fan? Maybe you don’t notice that sports fans of all backgrounds tend to riot after championships, Super Bowls and so on. Dr. King said that a riot is the crying out of the unheard. Often that’s true, though the sports riots mostly seem like drunken fools getting rowdy and stupid. But rioters come in all backgrounds. During the Los Angeles riots in 1992, even foreign tourists got arrested for looting. A better question would be why you have such a selective memory.
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Name : ACC25068, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States,Probably for the same reason that any large group of people riot. All you need is a large crowd, some type of tension and a trigger. Take the recent riot in Salt Lake City after the Olympics, for example. You had a large group of people, the tension was that the party was going to end. And the trigger was one idiot who threw a bottle at a cop. The cop immediately goes into defense mode. Another bottle is thrown, cops go into ‘stop this now, or someone is going to get hurt’ mode, which then makes the mob get defensive, and you know the rest. A large factor there was alcohol. But mob mentality can affect any large group of sober people as well. If I am not mistaken, an overwhelming majority of those involved in Salt Lake were ‘white,’ or hadn’t you noticed? If that isn’t enough proof, there was a college out West, I believe in Colorado a few years back, that had a very big riot (cars flipped, large fires set) and the students were again predominantly white. Hmmmm, maybe the guy who started it was black?
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Name : Dave, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Spiritual - Non Traditional, Age : 33, City : Long Island, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Technical Manager, Education level : Technical School, Social class : Middle class,People of all races riot when they are oppressed. The French rioted under King Louis when the masses were tired of being hungry all the time. They call it the French Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a riot wherein colonial white Americans rioted against imperial Britain’s taxes on tea. To this day there have to be riot police at soccer games in Europe, where mobs wait in the crowds to blow their stacks over a referee’s decision. There have been riots in China, Asia and the Middle East; therefore, anywhere people are oppressed, they will rise up.
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Name : Missjohn31620496, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Afro-Caribbean, Religion : Christian, Age : 29, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : Technical School, Social class : Middle class,I’ve never had to question why blacks riot. What has baffled me is why were there riots at Woodstock ’99? More than $1 million in property damage and a dozen reported rapes because white boys can’t control their emotions or actions when they’re listening to their pseudo-hip-hop metal fusion? Because white parents are lazy and uninvolved and refuse to instill objective values in their children, either because they have a perverse desire to be ‘liked’ by them or that it’s simply too much trouble to parent a child now that nannies are taboo? Why the riot every time there’s a meeting of more than two nations like Seattle and stuff like that? Because the fattened piglets of well-to-do whites are so profoundly bored with living in a coccoon of privilege, wealth and security that we allow them to play at some teasets-and-teddybears communist revolution at the expense of nearly everybody else? Why are L.A. and Cincinnati considered ‘ape parties’?
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Name : Paris, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 35, City : St. Paul, State : MN, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Which ‘black people’ are you talking about? Some people who are black riot. I don’t riot, and I’m black. Couldn’t I just as easily ask the question, ‘Why do whites get an almost orgasmic pleasure from burning crosses on black people’s lawns?’ Both your posted query and my rhetorical query are just the same.
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Name : Me21885, Race : Black/African American, City : na, State : SD, Country : United States,I don’t know … why do white folks riot when their team loses (or wins)?
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Name : ED25450, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Age : 45, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States,First, black folks are not the only ones to riot. Riots are the product of frustrations with institutions in any given society. So, if what you feel you are entitled to as a citizen is not being honored over a period of time (such as quality schools, equal chances in the economy, fair representation in politics and the media, fair treatment by law enforcement) that frustration can boil over into a riot. riots seem like such a ‘black thing’ in the United States because over the past 40 or so years, blacks have been the most vocal group when speaking about social injustice and inequity. Dr. King’s speech does not start out by talking about his ‘dream.’ He talks about cashing in the promissory note of equality and justice issued by the government. For blacks, politically, economically and socially, there remains a great divide (and for other people of color). To use Los Angeles as an example, a major reason for that riot in the early ’90s is not because they did not get what they want, but that four white police men were found innocent of brutally beating a black man, which was caught on film. Blacks in Los Angeles have been indicting the police on brutality and profiling since before the ’60s, and that trial proved that no one cared about their situation. So rioting is the result of frustration, and if your ‘group’ has consistently been marginalized or silenced without much return, what do you think your ‘group’ would do?
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Name : Joseph29119, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Lansing, State : MI, Country : United States, Occupation : grad student instructor, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Two considerations: 1) The comparisons made to white riots somewhat miss the point because black rioting is specifically racially motivated. White rioting, as far as I can tell, is not tied into whites’ identity as white people. 2) Black rioting recieves a large amount of attention from the press compared to white rioting, probably because it is more destructive and violent, lasts longer and is more widespread. The point is, the question is valid, even though white people have a riot here and there as well.
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Name : Trunk, City : Virginia Beach, State : VA, Country : United States,Your question need to be re-thought with a healthy dash of common sense. For example, if black folk rioted each and every time they didn’t get their way, they would have been rioting 24/7 for the past 400 years. Think of it, every day of a slave’s life caused him/her to ‘not get their way’. For every parent/relative of a lynched man or raped daughter did not ‘get their way’ since I’m positive they wouldn’t have wanted their loved one to be harmed. Not to mentioned the victims of this heinous crimes. My first question to you is how many riots have you known about? Second, how many times have you known an injustice to be done to a black person. Consider these scenarios and decide if ‘black folk riot when they don’t get their way’. Segregation, voting rights violation, Jim Crow laws to name a few. I think your question is a exaggeration.
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Name : Katie26714, City : Dallas, State : TX, Country : United States,I suggest you try reading a newspaper or watching the news sometime. Black people rape, too. People of ALL backgrounds and skin tones rape. Rape is NOT isolated to whites and a product of whatever it is you call bad white parenting.
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Name : J21169, Gender : F, City : Miami, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,‘I don’t know … why do white folks riot when their team loses (or wins)?’ Usually because they’ve been drinking. But black folks don’t need to be drinking to start rioting! D.C.
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Name : Dan-Cubrich27338, City : Omaha, State : NE, Country : United States,Black folks have it better than they ever have here in the good old USA! Except for a few individuals, the black race is certainly not an oppressed race in 2002! D.C.
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Name : Dan-Cubrich27336, City : Omaha, State : NE, Country : United States,You can say what you want but lets face it, when black folks riot, 99% of the time they have no reason to do so. A black criminal got shot by the police in Cincinatti. So what happens next? The predictable rioting what else! Obey the law and be a good citizen and 99.5% of the time everything will be alright! D.C.
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Name : Dan-Cubrich27337, City : Omaha, State : NE, Country : United States,
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