Quote:Chicken or egg thing, right? Could it be that the the violence occurred because the authorities acted harsher in their situations? I think it's reasonable to have that deduction.


Again, can you possibly imagine the way the authorities would have reacted more harshly to a group of armed black protesters in the inner city? To me, it's a pretty easy extrapolation.


White tea... members were treated with much more respect, no swat teams, no tear gas... and they even came strapped...


Ferguson protesters got the full riot gear, even though they were unarmed and just walking the streets...


And the other thing to consider, the Ferguson protesters were all branded as thugs, when only a small minority of then got violent.


The white tea... dudes are not all lumped in as traitors or thugs or even bullies for what they did.


To me it seems like the white group gets privileges the other groups don't


Heck, in this very forum we have fellow members saying they want to have student protesters deported. Imagine if those Muslim protesters were walking around with guns exercising their second amendment rights!

 

Look at the situation from this point of view.

 

The protesters were defending a rancher from un-reasonable seizure/destruction of his property.  They were not violating any laws, nor were they being destructive to private and/or public property.  They were also in no way acting aggressively towards any law enforcement.

 

Next look at the occupy protesters.  They were violating city ordinances, littering, defecating and destroying public property, and were being disruptive.

 

Next look at what happened in Ferguson.  A black felon gets killed by a white police officer legally, and people start to riot.  They were looting, destroying public and private property and being very hostile towards law enforcement.

 

My point is, you seem to be looking at it and perceiving it from a racial "black vs. white" point of view rather than looking at the actions and demeanor of the people involved.  Take race out of it all together and just look at the actions (reality).

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