Top Comment -- Scootermom (RE: Protesters torch Ferguson businesses): I find the rage understandable. The black community just got told, in a really condescending way, that their lives aren't worth much. Again. I don't like rioting. I lived through LA in 1992, and it wasn't much fun. But where is the outrage when Penn State students rioted because Joe Paterno got fired? I don't recall everyone calling those nice college students "thugs." Nutbags in Nevada were pointing guns at law enforcement over some scrawny cattle, and they were portrayed as patriots. Idiots in Texas take their machine guns shopping with them, and they aren't thugs, but citizens exercising their second amendment rights. It seems to me that the word "thug" is reserved for people of color. If you don't see that as a problem, you really don't understand what's happening in Ferguson, and the mounting rage over police shooting unarmed men, women and children in communities of color.
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
that their lives aren't worth much. Again. I don't like rioting. I lived through LA in 1992, and it wasn't much fun. But where is the outrage when Penn State students rioted because Joe Paterno got fired? I don't recall everyone calling those nice college students "thugs." Nutbags in Nevada were pointing guns at law enforcement over some scrawny cattle, and they were portrayed as patriots. Idiots in Texas take their machine guns shopping with them, and they aren't thugs, but citizens exercising their second amendment rights. It seems to me that the word "thug" is reserved for people of color. If you don't see that as a problem, you really don't understand what's happening in Ferguson, and the mounting rage over police shooting unarmed men, women and children in communities of color.
