Even though I blogged about it last summer, I completely forgot about Obama's "quiet riot" comments. With the recent discovery of the many disgraceful remarks--in church sermons--made by his spiritual advisor over the years, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Pat Hickey of ...With Both Hands brings up a good point: "Given the recent interest in racial politics in the last few days, I wonder if Rev. Jeremiah Wright helped to script that speech."Repeatedly, he referred to the riots that erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four police officers of assault charges in the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist, after a high-speed chase. Fifty-five people died and 2,000 were injured in several days of riots in the city's black neighborhoods.
"Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths," Obama said. "They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better."
I guess I have to remind people like the junior senator of my state that the rioters were responsible for the Los Angeles riots. Seeking to justify them, and "quite riots," by bringing up "a sense of disconnect" only plants a dangerous seed in the minds of potential rioters that it's okay to loot, burn, and maim--in the right situation.
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