I didn't say riotors were MOSTLY white. I used the word MANY. I literally saw what I saw with my eyes, not CNN's. I hate CNN. I'm done with the mainstream media and have been since Obama was elected. Not because Obama is black or because Obama was elected, but because of how obvious the lean was. And naturally Fox news went the other direction to differentiate and now we have this war of opinion and total lack of real journalism. As someone who studied journalism, I can see between the lines how twisted the profession is. And today's "good" journalists are actually good writers/talkers, not journalists.
Because this particular "movement" feels very aggressive and is gaining steam, I've chosen to develop my own understanding. Part of my family is black, so I spoke with a few of them. I've spoken to black neighbors. I've done my part as best as I can to understand where this comes from. The people I spoke to are literally taught from birth by parents, people they look up to, friends, religious leaders, and even politicians that America hates them, that they are still slaves or otherwise still shackled by a white society and "the white man", and so on, so forth. It's not always overt, but it's there and it adds up. They live in actual fear of white people and police. At least among those I spoke to, they culturally are communal so when one person is harmed, they all internalize it as racism due to the lack of trust. This is bolstered by a history of literally being slaves, not having the same rights as white people, etc. But if you challenge certain elements of this mindset to try and change it, you are racist and the reaction is often swiftly aggressive. At least it has been for me. Saying something like, "but I can get pulled over for a brake light out, too" or "cops have never been nice to me either," or "isn't it logical that areas with more crime would have more police" are something that gets you immediately ousted from a discussion and canceled as a racist. It's so fast.
Years ago, stupidly, I decided to drive Lyft for a while and often ended up in rough neighborhoods at night. I did this thinking I could build up extra funds for my race car. It turned out to be, at best, a high risk $3 an hour job. Anyway, I have driven through areas of this city at night -- at 2AM -- and seen people in the streets with crying awake babies, toddlers, and kids with them while adults are swearing, smoking weed, and whatever else. I all but stopped driving after 11PM as a result of seeming to always end up in these neighborhoods (the only way you can pick where you're willing to go is to go as far away from that area as possible for pickups) and seeing things that just make me enraged and saddened at the same time. Those kids don't typically grow up to be scholars and not getting proper sleep is developmentally terrible for a child. That kind of developmental disadvantage is almost unfixable when these kids become adults. It's just insane that parenting cannot be discussed without being called racist or sexist or whatever. There are terrible white parents, too. Those kids grow up to be terrible people, too. Interestingly, the worst of the bad white kids are the ones causing threat to our 2nd ammendment because they decide to walk into schools with an AR and shoot the place up. Parenting needs to be taught and it's not always taught by example from parents. You'd think this would be a topic discussed among the people yelling "defund the police". You'd think they'd say, "Defund the police... and reallocate those funds to social workers focused on parenting" or "defund the police... and reallocate funds to enforcement of child support laws so fathers aren't so easily absent". Something like that.
Anyway, watch this: