You mean, what if white Americans had been slaves instead, had hundreds of years of system racism and intergenerational wealth and power discrepancies, lived in fear of the police state, were victims of a racist prison industrial complex, lived under brutal race/class inquality, and continued to have talks with their kids about how to survive getting murdered by the police?
And through all of these preconditions, would white Americans then take to the streets in frustration because they have no other avenues to express of file their grievances?
Is this what you’re asking? Really?
@mazingerz88: “How would white Americans go about fixing the problem they perceive to exist?”
The riot is an predictable phenomenon that occurs under very real conditions, like we have seen. The riot is not to be condemned as “property destruction and looting” in these scenarios. Rather, the conditions that cause the riot should be addressed. Moralizing about how black people express their despair and rage – whether you’re agreeing with their grievance or not – is not helpful. There is no “right way” for the powerless to express rage and frustration at hundreds of years of violent injustice. So stop pretending that we need to address “property destruction and looting” in the same conversation as racial injustice. We can’t and shouldn’t.