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Originally Posted by transplant99
I have no idea when or why anyone called Sherman a thug..if they did they were using it incorrectly.
As for race conflict...I never said there wasn't any....pretty obvious there is.
It has NO bearing however on the fact that burning down a city will not effect change because those doing the criminal acts are not the ones who will persue said changes. Peaceful protests will go eons and eons further than this lawlessness will ever hope to.
Just in Baltimore...
The Mayor, the police Commisioner, the patrol chief, councillors, activists...all on TV just this evening...are all black. They are the ones "in power" as you put it, and they are not going to be any more active to affect change when they see what we are witnessing on their watch.
Common sense dictates that burning down your local pharmacies, looting your mall and dozens of other local small businesses, burning schools...is only going to HURT your community more than it will ever help. I mean...how long til these resources are replaced? Years? Maybe never?
Well done.
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If you are black in the USA, riots have historically been a much better way of pushing progress.
For example, prior to the violence in Baltimore, there had been 4 days of peaceful protesting that went completely unreported.
It took riots in Ferguson to expose the depth of corruption and racism in that police department. Same in Los Angeles 15 years prior.