Lecture to focus on riots

When was the last time you saw or heard of a riot, setting buildings on fire or looting that didn't involve non-caucasians? Please send link, I would like to see pictures.

"Reality", maybe you should think more deeply. It's usually the "Caucasions", as you say, who represent the power structure. Riots typically happen when a disempowered minority feel they have been victimized one too many times. In this country, the largest minority is African-American. However, perhaps you should think back to the late sixties and early seventies when college students (largely white) and other young people protested the war and some of those protests turned into riots (at least, that's what the Powers That Be termed them).

I think minority is an over used term. Is a child born to white mother black father: a)African-American b)black c) white d) president.

Yep, there is something to be proud of, open old wounds and provide something of lasting value to the community! Some things just need to be forgotten and move on.

HotFoot, the largest minority group in this country is not African-American. Hispanics are the largest minority group. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/010...

Reality I just don't get your initial response, why in the h@ll does race always have to come up in the discussions here. Are you people that ignorant and narrow minded that race is the only topic you can focus on and feel empowered. Despite what you may believe white people are not the master race, they break the law just like anyone else on this planet. There could have been a more intelligent response here.

What were the riots about? Who was rioting and burning? I think rioting & looting is synonymous with black temper tantrums.

The right to go to school with white folks. Just another temper tantrum.

Burning down the city and rioting is a good way to gain acceptance.I thought this riot was over a man in jail for killing his 5 year old niece. You must be referring to previous riots....

my mother told me about how James Brown came back to Augusta to calm down the riots in the Seventies. Too bad he can't come online and slap you silly Reality. You sir, give white people a bad name. And Shamrock, you don't forget things like this. If you choose not to honor or remember these things, then just don't. Jeez, its the same thing with the Confederacy day arguments.

But why burn Paine College and your own neighbor hood?

This article is only baiting us, it leaves out too much information!!

They did the same thing all over the country, 37 years later you can get a house and the government will pick up the tab.

Well, you know, You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

this article does leave out a lot. how did the sixteen-year-old die? whose deaths were the six? who killed whom? (i don't usually use the word "whom," but i'm hoping it will impress reality and patricia what's her name, who should be along any minute now when she smells the white v black vibe here, as sufficiently white.)

dhd1108, what is being honored the riots? The only thing James Brown could slap was his wife.

well, reality, maybe honor the death of the boy who died in jail. did he fall out of his bunk? or was he tortured and murdered? or to honor the six unarmed black men shot in the back. or just to learn or contemplate a little bit.

Well, I wonder if he killed his 5 year old niece. I didn't realize there were 6 unarmed black men shot in the back. Who shot them? The headline "Lecture to focus on riots" leads me to believe the lecture has more to do with how to set a fire and start a riot.

I once heard some of the local powers that be talking about these riots. They actually used it as an excuse of why they vote along racial lines, telling the listeners that we don't remember the riots and what happened and that is why we can't understand. It wasn't until an African American girl in the group spoke up and said she didn't remember them but she also didn't see why Augusta can't stop voting race and start voting what's best for the city. I believe her solution was that the older crowd that holds on to this white/black hatred need to go and we need a new government of younger people who are not holding on to old memories but looking forward to new futures. So honor the dead but lets move on. And this is for both sides of the fence, black and white.

Reality? The reality is that your comment shows a disrespect for black. " They did the same thing all over the country". Who are they? I guess the whites that riot after championship games at colleges all over the country are acceptable? I guess the whites that riot after hockey games all over the world are acceptable?

The six that died all blacks shot by local police and National Guard. One who was a friend of my family, was returning home after working a shift at University Hospital.

They, refers to all who participated in the "race" riots. Hockey isn't played all over the world. When whites destroy things they are also common criminals, it does seem to me to be predominately a non caucasian act worldwide.

How about all of the innocent victims pulled from there cars and beaten in the street because they were white?

Lets talk about the ''Holocaust''

According to some world leaders there is a question of its authenticity.

reality, look into these riots. it wasn't so long ago. people are still here who were affected.
and saying we should all get along is one thing, but it's a little bit simple. nice for a young girl to say, i guess, but older people should be encouraging her to study history. hallmark card sentiments aren't going to help much. people do get voted into office with the attitude that we shouldn't look back (aka study history or right wrongs), but they're generally the ones who don't work on anything but their own careers.

To the reader who want's s to move on, I agree, if we move on about the ''Holccaust''.

I agree, some things are harder to get over than others. We are bombarded about the plight of the black person, there are many other people in the same boat. I understand that it is good to be proud of your heritage, but why is it bad to be white and proud of your heritage?

reality. why do you call yourself reality? be as proud of your heritage as you want. are you upset because sometimes people say that the group in power abuses its power and the group in power where we live has been largely white? power is tricky. and of course there are and have been good white people. but why do you need to confine yourself to only whites? you can identify with anyone to some extent if you give it a whirl. reality is big, reality. try a little of someone else's reality once in a while. other people's realities are real, too.