white people riot all the time. Here’s a look at some of
the dumbest reasons.
This story first appeared at AlterNet.
There is a long and storied history of behaviors being
depicted through the prism of people’s skin color. During
Hurricane Katrina, as people of all races desperately
searched for provisions, the media reported that white people
“found” food, while black people “looted.” A similar
phenomenon
can be seen in
the response to
protests
sparked by the
murder of
unarmed black
teenager
Michael Brown
and a grand
jury’s recent
decision not to
indict his killer, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. In
discussing riots that occurred in the aftermath of both
events, the media and conservative pundits have displayed
far too great a willingness to chalk up the destruction to
black pathology without looking at longstanding policies that
support and maintain white supremacy in the U.S. What’s
more, they also completely overlook the fact that white
people riot, too—just for really stupid reasons.
Inspired by a list compiled by political blogger @red3blog in
a series of tweets, here’s a more in-depth look at the 11 most
ridiculous reasons white people have rioted.
11) Denver 1998: Denver Broncos Win Super Bowl.
In response to their home team, the Denver Broncos,
winning the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year in a
row, 10,000 fans apparently decided the most appropriate
response was to go on a rampage that included fighting in
the street, randomly setting bonfires, overturning cars and
general acts of vandalism. Andrew Hudson, a spokesman for
the mayor’s office, later called the mob destruction “a really
ugly scene by a lot of obnoxious people who were drunk.”
Video of the swelling crowd behaving badly can be
viewed here , with reporters repeatedly referring to the
rioters, who caused the city millions of dollars in damages,
as “rowdy.”
10) San Francisco 2012. San Francisco Giants Win World Series.
You might guess that with three World Series wins over the
last five years, riot-ready San Francisco Giants fans might
decide to sit one of those wins out, but so far, that hasn’t
happened. While this particular photo dates to the 2012 riots
following the Giants’ triumph over the Detroit Tigers, the
city has erupted in post-World Series violence twice more in
recent history: in 2010, after the Giants beat the Texas
Rangers, and again this year, after the team defeated the
Kansas City Royals. The 2014 riots ended with two non-fatal
shootings and a stabbing among the violence that marred the
night. A picture tweeted after this year’s mayhem shows the
remnants of a smashed police car, with a note that “officers
had bottles thrown at them by out of control fans.”

2011. Vancouver
Canucks Lose
the Stanley Cup.
A few of
the most
interesting
details about
the riots that
followed the
Vancouver
Canucks’ loss
to the Boston Bruins for the Stanley Cup in 2011: Rioters
chanted “Let’s go riot! Let’s go!”; cars and trucks were
overturned and set ablaze; theatergoers who’d gone to see
the Broadway play “Wicked” found themselves stuck in the
theater, which was located in the riot zone, until the whole
mess ended. Jim Chu, chief of the Vancouver police
department, blamed the chaos on “criminals and anarchists”
disguised as hockey fans. In any case, local news cameras
caught aerial views of rioters in the act, like this video of the
crowd turning over a truck (at the :40 mark) for reasons
apparent only to them.

Lexington, Kentucky, 2012. University of Kentucky Wildcats
Win.
If you have any doubt that white people are particularly
committed to rioting for any sports related reasons, consider
the case of the University of Kentucky in 2012. Riots broke
out after the school defeated in-state rivals Louisville in the
Final Four, with more than 30 arrests made and a staggering
50-some fires reported. Astonishingly, just two nights later,
after the team defeated the University of Kansas to become
NCAA champs, fans again rioted, setting just as many fires,
but this time adding gun violence to boot, leaving one man
non-fatally shot (and not by the police).
7) Boston 2004. Red Sox Win Games…Three Different Times.
If you make a reference to “that time white people in Boston
rioted over baseball,” you’ll have to get more specific and
name a year, since it happened in 2004, 2007 and 2013. The
deadliest riot, in 2004, left 21-year-old student Victoria
Snelgrove dead, the accidental victim of a projectile fired by
the police. Snelgrove, despite being among the
60,000-80,000 estimated rioters, was never labeled a “thug”
or a “demon,” and the Boston police department issued a
statement saying it accepted “full responsibility” for the
student’s death. (The city was subsequently court-ordered to
pay Snelgrove’s family $5.1 million.) Media coverage of the
rioting accused fans of taking the celebration “too far,” and
described them as “causing mischief,” even as images of
flames engulfing a car flickered in the background. Riots
also followed a 2007 Red Sox win, as well as another
triumph in 2013, a night which ended with
cars smashed and overturned .

6) West Virginia 2014. West Virginia University Mountaineers
Win.
Although the West Virginia University Mountaineers pulled
an upset with their 2012 win over Baylor University, it did
not reflect the 400-year-long struggle for equality and justice
of one oppressed minority group against a racist and white
supremacist power structure, but white people found a
reason to riot anyway. According to ESPN , rioters “pushed
over street lights and threw rocks, beer bottles and other
items at public safety personnel and their vehicles,” and of
course, set plenty of fires. In fact, the school has become
famous for recklessly burning stuff after games (even though
it’s now a felonious offense), which I’d love to see any
students from an historically black college try to get away
with.

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5) Pennsylvania 2011. Penn State Fires Coach Joe Paterno for
Looking the Other Way While His Assistant Coach Sexually
Molested Children.
After it was widely discovered that Penn State football coach
Joe Paterno hadn’t reported his assistant coach, Jerry
Sandusky, to police, after learning he was likely molesting
young boys, the school fired the coach. After learning of the
university’s decision, thousands of students rioted, brawling
with police and ripping down lamposts. They also
overturned news vans, which crowded the campus as the
scandal unfolded. Jerry Sandusky was later found guilty of
45 of the 48 charges related to molesting young boys, many
of them from underserved communities and participants in
the Second Mile, a “charitable organization” Sandusky
himself founded.
4) Knoxville, Tennessee, 2010. Lane Kiffin Decides He Doesn’t
Want to Coach for the University of Tennessee Anymore.
Lane Kiffin probably expected that announcing he was
quitting as head coach of the University of Tennessee
Volunteers to instead coach the University of Southern
California Trojans—after just one year on the job— would
frustrate many of the school’s football fans. He may not
have expected it would result in them calling for his head
and totally wrecking shop. Reports state that Kiffin was
basically chased from campus, while students and other
football hooligans burned things, ran amok in the streets, and
again, burned things (sometimes, apparently, while
drunkenly singing “Rocky Top, Tennessee”). In the end,
Kiffin turned out to be a huge bust at USC and was fired,
meaning he’d actually done Tennesse a favor.
3) Huntington Beach, California, 1986 and 2013. Surfing
Competitions Take Place.
Every year, Huntington Beach hosts the U.S. Open of
Surfing. Every few years, it also hosts a riot or two. The
Huntington Beach Op Pro surf riots date back to 1986
when, according to (possibly apocryphal) lore, the chaos
started with a few guys “trying to take off the bathing suits
of two young women.” Whatever the origins of the craziness
—footage of which you can check out here , along with
photos here — it ended with hundreds of rioters setting police
cars on fire, hurling bottles and throwing punches. The
scene repeated itself in 2013, when a crowd described
as “young, tan [and] overwhelmingly white” went on a
similar free-for-all of random destruction. While these two
riots are separated by a quarter century, don’t be misled:
Huntington Beach has a history of random group violence
that suggests something deeper and more pathological at
work in the white community. Check out this video
footage from 1993 (from a 4th of July riot) or this lengthy
list of Huntington Beach crowd violence compiled by
Southern California station NBC 4.
2) Chicago 1979. Too Much Disco Music.
Chicago DJ Steve Dahl was a key voice in the “Disco Sucks”
movement, the backlash against disco music that advocated
for the superiority of the more white-identified genre of
rock and roll. (The movement might also be considered the
progenitor of rockism , which remains with us today.) Disco
Demolition Night started as a publicity stunt where fans
were invited to bring old disco records to a double header
between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
Between games, the plan was to have Dahl explode a pile of
the records on the field. The problem was, nearly double the
capacity of Comiskey Park showed up, and a few thousand
fans who’d been refused admittance instead found ways to
sneak in. As the two teams began to square off, out-of-
control fans threw disco records and random objects from
the stands onto the field. Between games, when the
explosion finally did happen, thousands of attendees
stormed the field, setting bonfires, stealing bases and
tearing up the green. It took cops in riot gear to get
everyone back to their seats, and ultimately, the second
game was cancelled and the White Sox forfeited. As pictures
from the night attest, the crowd was overwhelmingly white,
although there was one person of color in attendance: late
actor Michael Clark Duncan, a 21-year-old unknown at the
time, who “slid into third base, had a silver belt buckle
stolen, and went home with a bat from the dugout.”
1) Keene, New Hampshire, 2014. Pumpkin Festival Takes Place.
No Really… a Pumpkin Festival.
The much-mocked Keene State College riots this year are not
just evidence that white people can and will riot without the
slightest provocation, they are a troubling look at the very
different ways our society views behaviors based on skin
color. In October, Keene State held its annual Pumpkin
Festival, a seemingly innocuous annual gathering that
somehow devolved into drunken (white) students turning
over cars, throwing bottles at the cops, stealing street signs,
starting fires, shouting obscenities at the police, and
somehow, surviving without a single person being so much
as tased. Ironically, despite early unrest, peaceful protests in
Ferguson had been ongoing for weeks, but conservative
media, for some reason, labeled those activists
criminals. Twitter couldn’t help noticing the difference,
resulting in tweets that wondered “Why are they tearing up
their own community?” and suggesting “White people in
New Hampshire really need to do some self-reflection and
regulate their animal impulses in the wake
of #keenepumpkinfest .”
www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/11-stupid-reasons-white-people-have-rioted/

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u are there

Double post

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OP format then summarize this thing!

Yet they say the USA is leads the world in freedom and human rights. I don't blame the whites, the best role models for an average black man who didn't attend college in the USA are the hip hop artists. If they claim that life is hard and they can't go to school or leave their ghetto life then they should come to Africa and see hardship yet we are struggling to be educated. I doubt if the tag of rascals and opportunists that some of the whites have put on them will ever change. As far as I'm concerned, there can never be equal opportunity in the USA, the world knows their short comings yet are too afraid to say anything. When you criticize, you are either called a whistleblower or terrorist.

The thing is , behaving badly at times is not race-dependent- we all can act stuupid some times irrespective of our color.
Op, arrange ur post

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated conflict on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It resulted in the Greenwood District, also known as 'the Black Wall Street'[1] and the wealthiest black community in the United States, being burned to the ground.

During the 16 hours of the assault, more than 800 people were admitted to local white hospitals with injuries (the two black hospitals were burned down), and police arrested and detained more than 6,000 black Greenwood residents at three local facilities.[2]:108–109 An estimated 10,000 blacks were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire. The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities varied from 55 to about 300