[Dilbert San Diego]

These riots just don’t make sense to me.

Okay, we’re saying that the minority community is angry, feels racism and all that. Okay, can someone explain how looting a store is what you should do because of this perceived racism? How does this help your cause? Did the store owner of the store you burned down have anything to do with the police action in the first place? Is he/she racist at all? Yet he/she has their lives ruined because of this action.

Most of the news stories haven’t mentioned the racial or ethnic background of the rioters, or how this all started.

Consider the rioting in so many cities after Martin Luther King was killed. How does that violence somehow honor a man who was committed to non-violence? And how does stealing and burning down buildings somehow get even for the perceived discrimination???

It sure seems that rioting sets back race relations, and, sets back redevelopment and urban renewal in our cities. Some sections of Washington, DC, still looked bombed out years after the riots of ‘68. A few days of rage can set things back decades. I’ve heard that some parts of Detroit never recovered after the riots of ‘67 there.

[Paladin2]

"I’ve heard that some parts of Detroit never recovered after the riots of ‘67 there."

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm thinking about the rioting in France a few years ago. That started when police pursued a Muslim youth, and he hid from them in a high voltage power substation and electrocuted himself. The youths took to the streets and set cars on fire night after night outside of Paris.

-PJ