Black fuck-up kills white people on TV

[Shinagami]

I'm particularly bad at missing humor/sarcasm in what people say and that has caused me some problems in the past but I had NO problem at all detecting Shinagami's sarcasm. He even made a specific post explaining it in detail for those who did. And he made a good point. Blacks do have an unfortunate history of destroying their own communities when they get pissed off at injustices done to them - including actions against those who had nothing to do with said injustices. It's a valid criticism - particularly considering the thread topic.

I’ve never participated in a riot myself. But when I hear someone say Blacks burn their own communities, I imagine myself in such a community looking around wondering, “Own? What does he mean ‘own?’ We don’t own anything around here.”

As Martin Luther King said a riot is the voice of the unheard.  Historically, when Whites have rioted, it’s been for an entirely different reason.  Whether we’re talking about the riots in Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century or the destruction of Black Wall Street in the 20th century, it’s always been Whites beating Blacks into our place on the bottom of the economic scale whenever we dared to build anything that might move us forward.

The op was not talking about burning businesses in his community.  So his point is something else entirely.

Once it became clear that the Couth Carolina shootings were racially motivated, the Whites here at AF came down on the side of justice and were outraged at what had happened. I am equally outraged at what took place in VA. That the assailant also claimed to have been discriminated against because of his sexual orientation adds another element to this.  I haven’t read all the posts yet, but I wonder if no heterosexuals have come on here suggesting we burn the businesses of gays (we’ll understand that they’re being sarcastic, or course.) He also said white WOMEN had discriminated against him, so maybe women should go out and burn the businesses of men. Hell, set the whole fucking country on fire and be done with it. arcasm:

Thanks for being civil. That wasn't sarcastic, for those of you who still need help. Anyway, implied in that second paragraph is that modern day rioters are doing the opposite. In other words, people at the bottom of the social ladder going after those on top. But almost all riots end up hurting those who have no significant power. The people in Ferguson weren't targeting Wall Street bankers, they were targeting convenience store owners. Often times they don't even target white people specifically, as in the L.A. riots in 1992 where for some reason, Koreans became the target.