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I think that the Middle Class are being told that if they don't want to protect those most vulnerable within our society, then the Poor Folks need to show the Middle Class just how vulnerable the Middle Class really is....
I snipped the rest of your post out, but I just want to say that it was a well thought out post. I also ran out of space and had to chop yours up a bit. There are people on this forum who actually believe that taxes and social programs are meant to do something other than keep the lower classes comfortable enough to not riot. It would probably more helpful if more people in the upper classes ever came close to understanding your point. It was eloquently made with plenty of examples.
Anyways, getting back to the specific subject, black people didn't riot over Stop & Frisk, black people didn't riot even after it became known that overwhelming majority of people released by the Innocence Program are black. Black people didn't riot after the hundreds of other police brutality incidents around the country in which the black person is a victim. Mostly because the mentality is that these issues will simply be settled eventually. However, the reality is that they are not and that's starting to clash with the outrage at these police brutality incidents. People are becoming convinced (and with good reason) that the system is indeed 'rigged' against black America. You add on to that the racial baggage our founding fathers left us with, and we have:
A) A view of racial benefits shaped by historical policies
B) The demonstrably different treatments that the justice system gives depending on race today
C) The perception that the demands made by Republican voices and supposedly fulfilled by Democrats administrations have fallen short of their intended purpose
In other words, people are angry because they're coming to the conclusion that things haven't changed all that much and police officers can still be violence against blacks without concern for any real punishment. When that happens, it leads to riots and it's not a white or black thing. It's a human thing. People riot and protest when they feel the state has not fulfilled its duties or lived up to its claims of reform. That is what I feel is happening here.