Sunday, June 21, 2020
RACE RIOTS NOT JUST ABOUT RACE OR ARE THEY?
See also, England's Riots 2011, an interesting look at demographics and motive:
But such instances were rare. For the most part, there was no obvious significance attached by rioters to the ethnicity of others taking part in the disorder. Researchers from the Guardian and the London School of Economics interviewed 270 participants for the Reading the Riots project, being published this week in the Guardian.
"Normally we don't get along, we have our own turf, we have our own area and fight with other gangs," said one who took part in disturbances in Birmingham. "But the other gangs there like, we all together one day, we weren't fighting each other, we were fighting the police. That one day, we all got together, the Asians, the blacks, the whites, we all got together, it felt like one, you get me? It felt like we were like one big gang … We took over Birmingham."
Even in London, where the rioting spread following the police shooting of the mixed-race suspect Mark Duggan, there was no conflict between the white people involved in the disturbances and ethnic minorities. It is hard to dispute the findings of the government panel set up to receive evidence from communities and victims of the riots, which announced last week: "We do not believe these were race
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