And then there's this...

An answer to the question why mob violence will not get you what you want.

Let me see if I can channel this properly:

- You need to treat us fairly, as equals! When frustrated we will lash out, have tantrums like children, even when the targets of our violence are not guilty or even are those who support us.
- We are not criminals! How about we loot that store over there!

There is a clear disconnect here with regard to the social covenant we all agree to so as to live in a peaceful society and be treated with respect and dignity.  I realize that, in modern times, a ideology has emerged that asserts that we are all allowed to do as we please simply because we are alive.  But a society functions as a unit when its members all hew to common standards and goals. That being the case, to demand that one be treated with respect when one is incapable of treating others that way, is pointless. When one considers the most viable means to attaining a respected position in society to be acting in a lawless manner, they defeat their own purpose.

We hear a lot about stereotypes of young black males.  Where to you think they come from?  They emerge from the same process that leads to stereotypes of white Americans.  Please tell me how acting in violent and lawless ways helps to overcome the stereotype, how the apparent lack of emotional control helps to change such views?  When you seem to be trying so hard to fulfill every negative stereotype you can, when you decide to lash out at those who are blameless, then you are creating enemies, not supporters.

I wonder what all  those liberals will do if the "protesters" decide to come and burn shit down in their neighborhoods.  I suppose they probably have gates and private security.  For me in my world, with no gates or security except what I bring with me, the answer is, quite blunt; don't bring that shit to my neighborhood, to my front yard.  You won't like how it goes down. If defending myself against your indiscriminate violence makes me a racist, then I guess I'll have to be one.