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Way to go...you've successfully referenced events that, in their majority, happened over 75 years ago. While that doesn't negate them, there's been immeasureable social change since then. First of all, let me state that I should've made myself more clear. My intent was not to imply that white people have never rioted in the history of the world...merely that they're infinitely less inclined to do so. As far as death toll...that's only one way to measure an event's impact. While L.A. was lucky enough to get away with only 52 dead (not 54), the property damage was in the hundreds of millions. To add to that, the majority of businesses looted and destroyed were black owned (though Koreans were hit hard too). Also, this happened in these people's back yards which shows a complete lack of any sense of community or solidarity. And why mention the Boston Tea Party? That's not so much a riot as a political statement...it wasn't an opportunistic smash and grab (and you should be thankful it happened. Our country may have been infinitely different without it.). As for sports riots...sure, they happen but don't belittle real events or yourself by saying a bunch of drunken schmucks pushing over light poles compares in any way on any scale to what happened in L.A. in '92 or Watts in '68 and again in '69. Besdies, can you prove to me that those events are commited by an exclusively or even a majority of a white crowd? Since you've shown such wonderful proficiency at using your computer's search function, I suppose I should throw a couple more in:

May 17, 1980: A three-day race riot breaks out after an all-white jury acquits four white Miami police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance salesman. The cops had beaten him with their flashlights and billyclubs, and he died in the hospital. 18 fatalities and more than $100 million in property damage are the final result.

Jan 16, 1989: Three days of race riots begin in Overtown, Miami when a black man fleeing on motorcycle is killed by a hispanic police officer. 125 blocks are sealed off during the riots.

Now you mean to tell me that either of those 2 compares in any way to some soccer hooligan riot? Here's something else you probably haven't thought of...why didn't white people riot when O.J. was found not guilty? It seemed so easy to riot when 4 white cops were found not guilty of beating a black guy but not when a black man was found not guilty of killing 2 white people? Sure, as police officers they hold a certain responsibility and, in my personal opinion, should've been found guilty. But O.J.'s wife and her male friend weren't doing 120mph down the highway hyped up on PCP and alcohol and they didn't try to attack police officers. I remember exactly where I was when that verdit for O.J. was read. I was in high school waiting for my lunch break. All of the black kids hooted and hollered and all the white kids just shook their heads. They didn't pick up bats and bottles and take to the streets. That's my point. For the most part (though not all of the time) white people seem to me to be less inclined to commit acts of violence for things that are not directly (or even indirectly) related to themselves or their primordial group. I could be wrong...but I doubt it.

On a side note, if you insist on polluting every one of the threads I make, please just send me PMs. Your precident of posting irrelevent bullshit does nothing but waste everyone's time, including your own. I'm sure you have this ill-founded idea that I don't think about anything I say (and to a certain extent that's true...excessive though and rewording of your ideas makes them less your own) or that I'm wrong about everything...but that's something for a PM. In other words, just don't post unless you have something that's actually relevent to say.