Rioting going in Baltimore.(update).

This shit's going crazy, day 2 and these idiots aren't backing down, looting stores for cheeto's, extended weaves and liquor, lol.

I'm not sure why capitalism is being brought up in this thread at all. The riots are a result of perceived injustices being committed by the Baltimore Police Department. Nothing else.

I can't agree with that. Sure, it is a result of perceived injustices committed by the BPD, but "nothing else"? I strongly disagree.

If this was JUST about people's beef with the BPD, then they'd be out attacking cops instead of looting stores and vandalizing people's property. Hell, look at that NYtimes link that someone posted, where it descibes black gang members coming together to protect black businesses while directing the rioters towards businesses owned by "chinese and arabs." What the hell does that have to do with anything that the BPD did?

The riots are the result of a lot of things. Perceived injustices committed by the BPD is certainly one of those things, but that damn sure isn't the ONLY thing that this is about. If that were all it was about, then they'd take up their beef with the party responsible (in this case, the BPD). Saying "the BPD is corrupt, so I'm gonna destroy local businesses" requires a leap that introduces an issue other than the actions of the PD. Selectively defending black-owned businesses while targetting white/chinese/arab owned businesses requires a leap that introduces an issue other than the actions of the PD.

Well the Chinese have done an admirable job in adapting to life in the United States. But then again, so have black people. The thing about the Chinese is that when they first got here they were stereotyped as subhuman. They were feared because they were taking jobs from white people. Their neighborhoods were described as dens of prostitution and drugs. They were given the most dangerous work. This was called "Yellow Peril." However, things started changing around WWII. The United States needed China during the war, so they effectively re-branded the Chinese as hard working, trustworthy, and mild-mannered. Safe. This made white Americans more accepting of the idea of working and living alongside them, which was useful, because otherwise the Chinese overseas would've told us to **** off. Then after the war was won that stereotypical net was cast over the Japanese as well. Then some intrepid social conservatives started using that stereotype to re-enforce notions of black inferiority. They would say, "look at this Asian family. They pulled themselves up from poverty in one generation with no complaints, not like those lazy blacks who are loud, obnoxious and always looking for a government handout." The Model Minority stereotype. Of course they never mention this re-branding. Classic divide an conquer. They also fail to say that Asians in America are allowed to succeed, but only so much. If they become too successful then they are a threat to white supremacy. So instead they are allowed to be somewhat successful and the cost is that they have been effectively silenced politically and socially. This is why you have a few Asian congressmen and women, maybe a cabinet member or two, a couple Governors, but no Supreme Court Justices or Presidents. A handful of movie stars. The cost for Asian-Americans is the psychological damage. If you are a young Asian-American and you're successful in school then so what? You're not exceptional, you're just doing what you're "genetically predisposed to do." If you are unexceptional? Well you might as well kill yourself. Re-branding was never going to work for black people since the entire system of white supremacy hinges on the notion of black inferiority. Therefore black people in America adopted another strategy. Civil disobedience, sit-ins, legal challenges, and yes, even riots.

Lost me too.

So, we... we all gonna get along?

I don't agree. These riots are the direct result of the mishandling of the Freddie Gray incident.

Well said, agree 100%.

im out of the loop guys, what started the riots?

I think the time is opportune for the U.S to finally get around fixing itself and leave others be

"Hurt the people trying to protect you?" If you are talking about the BPD then I don't think the majority of these rioters share your opinion of that department's function in that society.

I think the time is opportune for the U.S to finally get around fixing itself and leave others be

@n64dd:

lol @ everybody that thinks only blacks have had bad shit and continues to have negative things happen to blacks. Every race has gone through shit. Hitler tried killing off my whole race.

Yes, there are racial problems in this country. Throwing a temper tantrum like a 5 year old and destroying YOUR OWN STUFF doesn't fix anything. MLK is rolling over in his grave tonight I swear.

Propaganda.

Were they treated as badly as blacks?

Were they made slaves?

Were they beaten to death?

Were they burned alived where they slept?

Were they hung from trees?

"Had there never been black slavery in the US, I don't know what the result would have been"

I will tell you what the results would have fucking been, if the whites of the past had behaved like civilised human beings and brought blacks over and given them fair work and pay and treated blacks with respect.

Then all the generations of blacks to follow would grow up with a love and respect for America and for the white man that brought them here. They would feel equal in there hearts and have confidence that they will live a fair life without prejudice.

Instead evry generation of blacks grows up learning of how blacks were cruelly treated and used as slaves by the white man and how blacks had to endure violence while peacefully protesting for equal rights and also how even to this day there are still struggles that a blackman must endure.

You think that doesn't have an effect on young blacks growing up, especially the poor ones, so they grow up with this **** the world attitude, and thye feel they don't stand a chance to make it, so they turn to the gang bangers and drug dealers for a sense of security and belonging, they feel the dealers and gang bangers care more about them than society does because i dont see society rushing out to help poor black kids in the ghetto to try and make something of there lives.

Its a never ending cycle in the poorer areas the ghettos, all it would take to break the cycle is for some people with power and money to give a **** and try and undo the wrongs from the past. Show the young generation that society does care and wants to help them become an asset to society.

>black people throws shit at 7-11 window until it breaks

>moves in through broken window

>moves out of store with tons of doritos, leaving a trail of doritos behind them as they make their escape

i was laughing so hard, i can't focus on the drama when the comedy is this good

I think the time is opportune for the U.S to finally get around fixing itself and leave others be

and black people were just set back another year from reaching social equality.

If blacks as a whole want racial equality they need to realize that black culture is rotten to it's core.

lol looking at your user name and your comment..make it a little less obvious :D

Propaganda because Hitler didn't try to kill off the whole Jewish race, he just wanted them (those who would be called Zionist today) out of his country, and for them to stop debt enslaving his countrymen. It wasn't until he became teamed up with those he was actually against that the ball got rolling on the travesties that followed. You should also take notice that the Jewish population in the world actually grew during that period, when supposedly (Russia recanted the amount of dead that they initially said was found) six million Jews died (which makes sense if you understand that it was once anti-Semitic to say that Jewish people were a race not part of a religion) Also lost is that the Gypsies population (Africans) were devastated on a level not seen since the Native Americans.

For those of you talking about Africans selling Africans into slavery, it seems that you aren't realizing it was at gun point, and you aren't considering that slavery in Africa was vastly different than it was in the USA. I suggest you read http://www.amazon.com/Interesting-Narrative-Olaudah-Gustavus-African/dp/1499629605.

You may not believe it, but plenty of the systems and communities that are in place now, were direct results of trying to oppress slave descendent black people; I encourage you to study the history of unions, housing projects, the acceptance of other races (including natural Africans), the feminist movement, the homosexual movement, along with plenty more.

Just to be clear, I don't condone the rioters, I think the should be lock up, sterilized, and the bad seeds of their children euthanized; but that would mean the general populace would have to acknowledge that what is portrayed on TV is not the black population as whole (much like calling a "bad" white person, white trash).

@n64dd:

lol @ everybody that thinks only blacks have had bad shit and continues to have negative things happen to blacks. Every race has gone through shit. Hitler tried killing off my whole race.

Yes, there are racial problems in this country. Throwing a temper tantrum like a 5 year old and destroying YOUR OWN STUFF doesn't fix anything. MLK is rolling over in his grave tonight I swear.

Propaganda.

I always thought it was weird when white people tell black people how they should feel

Could not agree with this statement more. Feels like that's been long overdue for at least 7-10 years now. (Possibly even more.)

@n64dd: "We're telling people not to attack cops."

Aren't the cops attacking blacks?

Propaganda because Hitler didn't try to kill off the whole Jewish race, he just wanted them (those who would be called Zionist today) out of his country, and for them to stop debt enslaving his countrymen. It wasn't until he became teamed up with those he was actually against that the ball got rolling on the travesties that followed. You should also take notice that the Jewish population in the world actually grew during that period, when supposedly (Russia recanted the amount of dead that they initially said was found) six million Jews died (which makes sense if you understand that it was once anti-Semitic to say that Jewish people were a race not part of a religion) Also lost is that the Gypsies population (Africans) were devastated on a level not seen since the Native Americans.

For those of you talking about Africans selling Africans into slavery, it seems that you aren't realizing it was at gun point, and you aren't considering that slavery in Africa was vastly different than it was in the USA. I suggest you read http://www.amazon.com/Interesting-Narrative-Olaudah-Gustavus-African/dp/1499629605.

You may not believe it, but plenty of the systems and communities that are in place now, were direct results of trying to oppress slave descendent black people; I encourage you to study the history of unions, housing projects, the acceptance of other races (including natural Africans), the feminist movement, the homosexual movement, along with plenty more.

Just to be clear, I don't condone the rioters, I think the should be lock up, sterilized, and the bad seeds of their children euthanized; but that would mean the general populace would have to acknowledge that what is portrayed on TV is not the black population as whole (much like calling a "bad" white person, white trash).

What I find most delicious is, these white libtards defending the rioters would be the first ones to get their shit kicked in instantaneously.

These people are actively targeting non-blacks.

Or are there videos out there instead?

@n64dd: "It's their job to stop people from burning shit, throwing rocks/bricks and having people do all kinds of illegal shit. If you don't understand that, your sense of right and wrong is very warped."

Way to swing and miss my point.

Quite a few.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLrHTW-zVWk

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/27/watch-white-man-stomped-on-the-sidewalk-in-baltimore-video/

http://soopermexican.com/2015/04/25/theyre-just-attacking-white-people-now-at-baltimore-protest/

There are also quite a few white people who are part of the protests, so...

The solution here is to employ these people. Build factories. Give them jobs.

Its seems a lot of you in here are concentrating more on the riots