The sad truth is that when black anger against racism boils over, the black community usually suffers the most damage. I think most blacks who riot would say they’re rioting in reaction to some white act of violence or injustice—like after the Rodney King verdict. People were angry and disappointed. They felt that whites who still wanted to keep blacks oppressed had taken care of these white officers and gotten them out of jail. Now, in the riots that followed the verdict, some black rioters did pull one white man from his truck and beat him. But most of the hostile energy turned toward
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