Black fuck-up kills white people on TV

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What does that have to do with anything? Was the public harsher on sports rioters than it was on the Ferguson rioters?

By global scale, do you mean looking at other countries and throughout history?

For us to be able to compare the public reaction to that of Baltimore's and access whether or not there's a double standard, it would have to be done in the US, and in the same decade.

If you do it that way, we will never come to an understanding. What happened in Baltimore and Ferguson can only be understood within its historical and global context. Again, I'm not trying to excuse the rioters or say they took the best course of action, but I understand that they were not rioting over Michael Brown. Brown was just a trigger to unleash the pent up frustrations and anger that had been building over decades. In my previous post, I tried to explain the relations between Blacks and Koreans in this country and why the Koreans were attacked.

I lived in Los Angeles, California for 23 years and I know what it's like to hear Black music blasting out of a store but when I go in the store, they trail me around like I'm a potential shoplifter. I know what it's like to enter a store and b hollered at. I know what it's like to be forced to buy the things I need to live from people who have no respect for me because banks won't give business loans to Black owned businesses while the government subsidizes Korean businesses in our neighborhoods after sending us to fight the Korean war. I know what it's like to be told that racism is a thing of the past and in the next breath be told that I have to understand that Koreans follow me around the store because other Blacks have stolen from them. If I accept such treatment on those bases, should I also think of all bald-headed White men as potential skinheads?

I'm not bitter and I don't hate them but I know what it's like and I know why the people in those neighborhoods don't see Koreans as the innocent victims during riots.


You can't take something so vast and reduce it to a single event.