CoolJ
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Interesting. What point do you think it's missing?
I think the cartoonist got it exactly right. There are many layers of meaning there, not just the obvious, IMO.
I do think it is essential that we all nod our heads and agree with the meaning in that cartoon. There is nothing to disagree with there, IMO, unless one believes intentional destruction of 13 pharmacies, a 16 million dollar old folks home, dozens of city and privately owned vehicles destroyed, 16 police officers hospitalized from violent assaults, 250 local businesses destroyed, hundreds of fires, etc-- is "okay". How could any person on earth other than a rioting criminal, think that is okay? There is no level of poverty, no level of disenfranchisement, no level of frustration, no level of boredom, no level of "I'm poor and mad", for people living in one of the wealthiest nations on earth, that justifies and excuses what happened in Baltimore last Monday-- or in Ferguson a few months ago.
Something tells me that the desperately poor people of Nepal, digging out from a natural disaster, and mourning the loss of 7500 of their innocent citizens, would not burn their own cities down, even if they wished their lives were more prosperous.
The people of B'more did not burn their city down. The criminals of B'more took advantage of a situation and tore up a neighbourhood.