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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How am I condoning it? If not for the riots, we wouldn't have heard of Michael Brown. That's not condoning looting. That's just a fact.[/quote]

Most Americans do not have an issue with protests.  They have helped make great changes to our country. 
You, however, ARE condoning rioting and looting.  Peaceful protests are not what caused the total destruction and damage to over 25 businesses in Ferguson last night.  Looting and rioting are what caused that. 
If you think the Ferguson case would not have been heard of but for the rioting, then you are condoning rioting and looting.  
[b]The family of Martin Luther King Jr. and the people who participated in the marches back during the civil rights movement would take great exception to your comment.[/b]  
Rioting and looting leads to nothing positive.  [/quote]

Since you mention Martin Luther King Jr.:

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7278687/civil-rights-ferguson
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Also:

http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/

It's a good speech.

[i]But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.[/i][/quote]

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