please understand that this is an incredibly racist and segregated city, and that people are angry here.

Yeah, the same line was used in the 1967 riots which destroyed billions in property and resulted in hundreds of deaths, including law enforcement.

According to the Kerner Commission, it went something like: Some of the rioters (all black) are angry over "injustice" in society and burned down buildings in their own neighborhoods and shot at police; and those looters (all black) are just strangers not from around here, of course.

You're judged by the company you keep.

Do you wonder why the city is self-segregated? Those blacks who didn't want to live in fear of having their house broken into, wanted to have decent schools full of well-mannered kids, and not worrying about Mike Brown shaking them down at the grocery move out years ago—just like my grandparents did.

Militarized police aren't killing young black men—other young black men are the ones killing them.

They do not feel heard. This is what they feel they have to do to be heard.

Well, you're going to consistently get poverty when that's what you practice.

70% of black women having children out-of-wedlock is a recipe for more poverty, and it's only compounded when your think education and speaking proper english are "white" and find yourself jobless because of it and your unwillingness to develop skills.

Senator Moynihan pointed this out 50 years ago and was shouted down as racist despite his assessments being an incredible work of sociology and factually accurate.

I wonder how much longer we can pretend that personal choices and family structure don't matter in terms of outcomes, or that "poverty" excuses violence and disorder. These "poor" protestors are wearing more on their arms in ink or jewelry than I have spent on my entire wardrobe. Yeah, they're poor, culturally and ethically.