(June 1, 2020 at 2:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
Apparently, LOTS of people want riots and looting. Have you been following the news? Riots and looting are very popular right now.
And I wouldn't be so quick to hold Johnson up as some paragon of racial equality. He spent the majority of his political career opposing civil rights legislation and wasn't at all shy about using the n-word (even in reference to Thurgood Marshall). He championed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s primarily because he needed to do something, and privately referred to them as 'n****r bills'.
If Johnson understood that 'prevention matters long term', it seems kind of odd that he did fuck all for civil rights in the two and a half decades he was in politics before he became president.
Boru
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