Out of the 1960s came black power, and black superiority movements and black anti-Whiteism, a hardened, violent, anti-white racism that has been fed by black leaders, the American left, the music industry, movies, TV, and print media, and in American education.
No, Jesus wasn’t black, and the white man did not destroy the power of flight when they destroyed the Negro Egyptian Empire, and Napoleon’s troops did not blow the nose off of the Sphinx because it reminded them of the “Black man’s majesty”.
Leftist politicians, race-baiters and the media are politically and economically invested in sowing racial discord where it otherwise would not exist.
Showing people looting and burning makes for great television. It also gives certain self-appointed black leaders relevance. And it gives politicians cause to call for more legislation for social problems that attack the “root causes” — which are always too much freedom and not enough government.