In the meantime, the whole world appears to have forgotten about the origin of the problem and its moral message. For the next couple of weeks, the only images in the consciousness of the global community will be those of a people engaged in an orgy of destructions and looting. In place of their initial empathy, the question on their minds now will be; “What’s wrong with those African Americans?”
And lest we forget. While the rampage lasts, schools are closed, academic year is messed up and kids’ minds are turned into a devil’s workshop due to idleness. On the other hand, many people will lose their jobs as a result of the looted and destroyed businesses. Therefore, to whose benefits are the riots?
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It's a shame and terribly sad for a people to wage wars against themselves.
Our people have the rights to react to the century-long injustice that have been meted against them. The method may look kind of ignorant sometimes, but how else do they have to express their anger?
We do have a history of injustice in the United States. But venting our anger against ourselves seem to be appearing dumb to some of us. The whole city of Baltimore in shambles and who will pay for the restoration? The same poor folks that went on rampage.
Poor Mayor! I'm still looking to see how she gets the damaged city out of this logjam.
People have to let the world know what they have been facing in terms of prejudice and racism. But while doing this, a protest soon gets taken over by some ignorant people who turn it into a riot. A protest is definitely different from a riot.
I am really concerned with the restoration of the city. Where do we begin the restoration process? And hello...not all the cops are bad!
When there is a bad apple in a basket, it destroys the other apple. It's therefore high time the cops stopped seeing or looking at every black person as a criminal. Maybe when they start this, there will be respect for everyone irrespective of race until proven guilty.
I guess it goes both ways. When cops start to see people as innocent until proven guilty, the people also need to start seeing all the cops as doing their jobs until a crooked cop is discovered or exposed.
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