Word: rioting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is a rising tide of bitterness in black America. It existed well before the vicious race riot last month that killed 16 people and sent ugly plumes of smoke into the night skies over Miami. But the violence caught the attention of white America-and that fact too causes further black cynicism. Black leaders, echoing their pleas of the riot-punctuated 1960s, are asking once again: Do we have to burn our own neighborhoods in order to be heard...
...wonder young black youths are predisposed to riot," says Ed Irons, a black professor of banking and finance at Atlanta University. "Even when the economy is going strong they don't get hired. You can't attribute this to anything but institutional racism. America does not want to face this. At some point it is going to explode...
...Associated Press-NBC News poll taken after the Miami riot found that 53% of Americans fear that there will be more racial riots in other cities this summer. At the same time, 84% of the whites thought blacks were better off now than ten years ago. But they are wrong, and that is precisely the point; it is the key factor underlying the growing frustration in the ghetto. Despite the programs that raised so much hope, despite the brave talk by politicians about rescuing the cities, despite the thousands of success stories that seem to prove the contrary, urban blacks...
...high outside the high school in the "colored" (mixed race) Cape Town suburb of Elsie's River. Bands of youths pelted passing cars with rocks. Then someone threw an unlit gasoline bomb at a truck driven by two white plain-clothes policemen. Two other officers in camouflage riot gear suddenly sprang from the rear. Without warning they fired directly into the crowd, wounding six and killing two 15-year-old colored students...
...place was well patronized. One hot night a few mischievous students gathered outside of the theater and started annoying a couple of Cambridge cops for whom they had little respect. More cops appeared and more students. The taunts continued. One officer used his stick on one fellow and the riot began. It lasted well into the night and a lot of boys wound up in jail, some of them hurt quite badly. It was a big story for the Herald next morning and for the Transcript and the Traveler in the afternoon...