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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
no, it's about the same as the rodney king thing... too simple for you to grasp? Not everything is complicated.
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it's nothing at all like Rodney King, but it is awfully sweet that you try and join in
Rodney King was a race riot sparked by one lone incident. A gang of police viciously beating a black man.
The problems here start 30 years ago with the Brixton Riots. The problems that caused them were never addressed. And now, it's happened again. The poor give birth in poverty and single parents with little or no education raise kids with little or no education in areas rife with crime, drugs and violence. The kids think they have no hope, no future and no point in doing what the society that has failed them so badly tells them to do.
They are disenfranchised.
And now, they had enough.
Yes, the events in Tottenham *may* have been sparked by the police shooting a young black man who had a gun. (Very unlike King). But the rest of the rioting is unrelated.
HTH
Damian