re: #349 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

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The worst part of that pic is the obvious racism. The second worst part is that it wasn’t local black people who burned down that Little Caesars down. it was burned by out-of-town “riot tourists” who used the Ferguson protests as an excuse to indulge themselves in destroying property and hurting police officers by fling frozen water bottles at them.

The destruction in Ferguson, MO, was not the product of “black criminality” or even racism, the arson and injuries were the products of young men* who happened to be black willfully deciding to indulge their destructive impulses.

*: I say ‘men’ not ‘people’ here because, while “riot tourism” is a cross-racial phenomenon, those who engage in it are overwhelmingly male (95%+).