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Wow...I wasn't aware that being discriminated against was cause for violence. Strange...seeing as how MLK Jr., Ghandi, and Nelson Mandela were all discriminated against and won their causes without ANY violence. And you're wrong...none of the instances I mentioned had anything to do with civil rights or the civil rights movement (with maybe the exception of Watts). They were acts of vengeance and, as I said in my reply to Daviso, many of us can control that feeling. I don't place property damage above human life...I merely mentioned that there is more than one way to measure the extent of what these events cause. You seem to like to read a lot into my thoughts...and you're almost always incorrect. I also don't appreciate your indirect inference that I'm a racist. The only reason that I mention race as a precursor to any of this is because it's just a fact. Why do you think that Reginald Deny guy was the only one pulled out of a moving vehicle and beaten half to death? Why does it matter why O.J. got off? I didn't mention that as a matter of race...in fact he beat the odds. I mentioned it as an opposition to the events that followed the Rodney King trial where 4 no-name cops were aquitted. So you're right...it's all about money and fame. I won't claim that society even today is perfect...far from it. But minorities have it better now than they ever have and it's going to keep getting better. Does that mean they have to settle for what they've got right now? Absolutely not. But is it cause to take violent actions to get more? No. Discrimination is NOT an adequate cause to brutalize your own neighborhood or take another person's life. Hell...I'm discriminated against every day simply for the way I look. Not once have I taken violent recourse against the people who look down on me. It's a matter of self restraint and common sense. What would violence get me? Probably not more than a trip to court. But if there were 20,000 copies of me and I decided to start a riot, I'd be more anonymous. Instead of firing off about "you're retarded" this and "you know nothing" that, why don't you start asking questions instead of making accusations? If you're so sure that you're right then analyze that...don't just fly off the handle because you THINK you're right.Look around and see that race factors into many of the things you'll encounter in your life...violence being one of them.