Nobody wants riots or looting. So why forever does this keep repeating?
Same thing happened after MLK was murdered. And just about every decade since a black person is needlessly murdered and we end up with the same thing.
It does no good to lecture after the spark if society is not going to focus on the long term conditions that lead to that spark. I think the empathetic and sane get this and always have.
But the problem for decades and centuries has been institutionalized structures that maintain the inequity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._...rban_riots Under the subsection "Urban Riots"...
Quote LBJ, ""What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off."
Understanding why things happen doesn't mean you want them to happen. So prevention matters long term. LBJ got that.
Same thing happened after MLK was murdered. And just about every decade since a black person is needlessly murdered and we end up with the same thing.
It does no good to lecture after the spark if society is not going to focus on the long term conditions that lead to that spark. I think the empathetic and sane get this and always have.
But the problem for decades and centuries has been institutionalized structures that maintain the inequity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._...rban_riots Under the subsection "Urban Riots"...
Quote LBJ, ""What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off."
Understanding why things happen doesn't mean you want them to happen. So prevention matters long term. LBJ got that.