Black Riots vs White Riots

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With the justice that is trying to be brought with these unjustified cases of racial profiling and acts of racism, there has always been this stigma that when black people riot, they are immediately branded as thugs and destructive animals who are ruining the community. That is the opposite case. There are countless times where I have seen white people rioting for things that are destroying the community and destroying the relationship between all races of people. Some of these strong examples are pointed towards the Westboro Baptist Church which strongly and openly discriminated against homosexuals. While this doesn’t fall on racism, it still strongly points to the social issue that is brought upon in similar lights as racism. Though, the Westboro Baptist Church still are racist, not towards black people, but Jewish people, despite the fact that they claim to not abide to racism. Another is the issue on the Confederate Flag which has always been associated with racism as it was the side of the Civil War that supported slavery. Those who are fighting to keep the Confederate Flag as a symbol of pride for the South and ignoring the part where the flag has been embedded with many racial controversies throughout the years. Are these two examples not qualified to be a riot? It may not have the physicality that is associated with riots but are these not disturbances that are creating more social issues in America? Meanwhile, people who are trying to find justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson are being put in the same category as these issues.