Quote:Not that it justifies violence or looting but it is quite clear that all over the nation blacks and other minorities are disproportionately profiled, targeted for arrest, and given harsher prison sentences then whites. I think it's easy to see how there could be widespread frustration over such a hopeless situation. Armed with feeling like that it's easy to see how a few people in a group could get a mob driven into a fervor, in my opinion. 

 

This is off topic but when I read that statement, I wonder why when so many people already know that government abuses, targets, and profiles a group of people, I get so much blow back for wanting to minimize government.

 

You'd think Blacks of all people would be with me on this? Government has done MORE to hurt the black community than it ever has done to help it, but it's often either the "liberal champions" of the black community or blacks themselves that overwhelmingly chastise me as a back wood redneck hick for the idea of eliminating all but the essential factions of government.

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