I'm left puzzled after reading this. So riots can be effective, but the response to the last riots sowed the seeds that led to these riots. Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a bad way of making positive change?
> Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a bad way of making positive change?
No. Nothing changed since the last riots systemically, so of course there are more riots. We are now however raising public awareness of previously unheard injustices, and by doing so (hopefully, if our system works correctly), inducing positive change.
Riots are happening because people literally don't know what else to do. The system has failed them. The system has decided it's OK for white cops to kill and imprison and mistreat black men en masse. Very public trials aren't yielding change, poor blacks continue to be terrorized, prejudiced tickets and arrests further amplify vicious cycles of poverty. Riots are acts of desperation that get a lot of attention (for better or for worse, depends on the system, many variables are unknown).
When the system moves in response (to correct in injustice at hand) that is when the riots will stop.
(Unfortunately that means either oppression will reign or true social change will be effected.)
No. Nothing changed since the last riots systemically, so of course there are more riots. We are now however raising public awareness of previously unheard injustices, and by doing so (hopefully, if our system works correctly), inducing positive change.
Riots are happening because people literally don't know what else to do. The system has failed them. The system has decided it's OK for white cops to kill and imprison and mistreat black men en masse. Very public trials aren't yielding change, poor blacks continue to be terrorized, prejudiced tickets and arrests further amplify vicious cycles of poverty. Riots are acts of desperation that get a lot of attention (for better or for worse, depends on the system, many variables are unknown).
When the system moves in response (to correct in injustice at hand) that is when the riots will stop.
(Unfortunately that means either oppression will reign or true social change will be effected.)