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Originally posted by KareBear
So selfish to use the opportunity to loot and destroy businesses. So many people are going to suffer at the end of this. Cops are too busy tear gassing innocent protesters. Now the looters are going to reflect all Ferguson in the media.
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Just a quick little lesson: 5 building have been burned and not one person killed in these riots. East St. Louis's 1917 riots, where white people rioted to kick blacks out of their city, saw 244 buildings destroyed (almost 50x more buildings) and saw at least 48 people killed (48 was the most conservative number), only to peak as a city in the early 60s.
The loss of a McDonald's, a gas station and a really gross pizza place is not going to destroy Ferguson. I'm not here for the protests either but they're not some Podunk town that can't bounce back.
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Originally posted by iStanGaga
Um, yeah. I know that. What is you point?
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...It would explain why they reacted differently?