Why don't white people riot?

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Oh please...people think it's all sunshine and lollipops being a white man in this country. True, you don't have the same problems as blacks or hispanics...you have different ones. Like the fact that you have to tip toe around every little issue that can evenly remotely be construed as racially motivated. Or that you get blamed for just about everything that goes wrong with a minority ethnic group. If you look at census numbers, white people make up a sizeably higher percentage of households below the poverty line than anyone, so don't tell me it's all about poverty and injustice. By that logic the numbers on crime and violence should be flipped. And yes, plenty of people of all ethnic backgrounds have been shot reaching for their wallets, cell phones, whatever. As for your "cause" arguement...yes, a person being killed is an event. A cause is when you raise money for something or someone. Now while your sister may have raised money for a cause, the killing itself and the actions that followed were events. I won't sit here and argue that it's right...it's not. But to pretend it only happens to minorities is a joke. When black people get pulled over for what you may see as frivilous, they scream racism or racial profiling. I'd say it's reality. If you haven't done anything you've got nothing to worry about. Cops pull teenagers over for the same reasons...they're statistically more likely to be doing something wrong. Does this make every black man and teenager a criminal automatically? No. But it's a pretty moot point to complain about being pulled over after they find out the car's stolen or they pull a bag of dope off of the driver. I was pulled over once for drivinng 36 in a 30mph zone by a black cop. He asked me out of the car and almost insisted that I let him search it. I did and after about 30 minutes of my time had been wasted he let me go without a ticket. Was that racist? If it was I better start making some noise or else I'll be left out. Siting links between crime and poverty is just a polarizer. Plenty of people living in poverty are well meaning people who are working their asses off to etch out a better life. As for Watts...I'm not saying that the adgenda behind it was wrong, but the ends don't always justify the means. There are better ways to get people's attention than by burning down your own f@cking neighborhood. That just goes back to my point about a lack of a community sense. And please don't pretend to know what it was like in Watts in '68. You weren't there and neither was I and don't even pretend a history book or documentary can tell the whole story. Also, please don't pretend to have the end all-be all knowledge of what justice is. Justice is an opinion...it's different for everyone and there's rarely a clear example of what justice really is. As for our aggressive actions against those we dislike or can't control...I couldn't agree more. But here's the thing...the government in the country is (at least in theory) elected by EVERYONE who is eligible to vote. If you don't like the way things are going, change them. Every American citizen has the right to vote after you turn 18...when you don't you get morons elected who make moron decisions that put our country in moron positions, like the one we're in now. I must say you made much better points than some of the other posters here, but I still don't agree. There's just too much rhetoric between the truths to take in.