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We have been seeing in the news lately another riot taking place, this time in Baltimore,MD. While television and social media can enhance broader viewership of these kinds of events isn't all this part of a fairly common occurrence in American history?
From the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s to the draft riots in the Civil War to labor riots in the late 1800s and early 1900s to, of course, the race and anti-Vietnam war riots this all seems to be as American as apple pie.
I guess my point is, while the media understandably covers this wall to wall, it isn't anything new and we'll see more of this in one form or another for the rest of our lives. These riots are nothing compared to what has come in the bloody past. Tell me if I am wrong.
There have been riots in the past, and they'll be riots in the future.
I don't think they are that common, only a handful of cities have suffered through any sizable riots since the wave of riots during the 1960's especially after the murder of MLK.
We have been seeing in the news lately another riot taking place, this time in Baltimore,MD. While television and social media can enhance broader viewership of these kinds of events isn't all this part of a fairly common occurrence in American history?
From the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s to the draft riots in the Civil War to labor riots in the late 1800s and early 1900s to, of course, the race and anti-Vietnam war riots this all seems to be as American as apple pie.
I guess my point is, while the media understandably covers this wall to wall, it isn't anything new and we'll see more of this in one form or another for the rest of our lives. These riots are nothing compared to what has come in the bloody past. Tell me if I am wrong.
We refer to riots as lite revolutions that way we can avoid military dictatorships, coups, and out and out insurrections (plus they are great for sports fans).
Seriously, I doubt that riots are an exclusively American past time, although I have a great admiration for South Korean riots, they are so wonderfully choreographed.
Anyway, check out this fascinating list of riots compiled by our good friends at Wikipedia.
Every country has a history of riots.
What a lot of people lining up to condemn or excuse the rioters in Baltimore or anywhere else in the world for that matter, forget that whatever the reason for the riot and no matter who has planned it ( they are never 'spontaneous') that for most of the participants they are exciting and fun. A way you can wreck things, hurt people maybe set things on fire and get free stuff if youre lucky.
Thats why the best way to deal with them is to keep them contained as much as possible in one small place, react quickly and relatively savagely.
The exact opposite of that case sems to have happened in Baltimore.
We have been seeing in the news lately another riot taking place, this time in Baltimore,MD. While television and social media can enhance broader viewership of these kinds of events isn't all this part of a fairly common occurrence in American history?...
Nothing new, rioting was at our roots. While we may be taught that the Sons of Liberty were great patriots, they were on the whole rioting thugs often manipulated by their "betters," looting, pillaging and attacking people. Not all our founding fathers thought they were anything other than that, no matter how school texts clean them up.
And on it went, and on it goes. This link is just about racial and ethnic rioting, it doesn't go into rioting over the various drafts or labor causes.
Baltimore has been known as "Mobtown" since the 1830's. The movie, "Gangs of New York" could just as easily been set in Baltimore.
The "patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore" as mentioned in "Maryland, My Maryland", the state song, was the result of the Pratt Street Riot, which occurred when a mob of Confederate sympathizers attacked a company of Union soldiers from Massachusetts who were going to reinforce Washington, D.C.
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but the rebel colonists also made a pact with the enemy. It's like Baltimore gangs soliciting weapons from ISIS.
