Stereotype Reinforcers Suck

I was following a thread on Ace when folks were more-or-less live-blogging the riot. Some commenters were relatively near the action. Text isn't video - but it can be better. I was getting a live news feed as I heard from people watching and listening to local-to-them news reports. Text radio.
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"...innate pathology...."

siiiigh [With heavy heart, drags soapbox over, grabs oxygen mask, wearily and half-heartedly clambers up.]

The neighbors who share our ranch are, absolutely, the best folks I know, salt of the earth, hardworking, faithful, family-strong, and would agree with you on this, Pete. So, I have this same conversation with Neighbor Bob now and then - always trying to keep in mind, as I do with you, venerable elder, that I am a mouthy young upstart with a pointless liberal-arts education who thinks he knows better than the life-educated guru in coveralls with callouses on his hands.

First, let me acknowledge how unhelpful is is, when struggling against racial stereotyping, that so damn many angry, stupid black punks keep insisting on confirming the stereotype, baggy pants and all, generation after generation.

Further, I acknowledge the tragedy that everyone can't be fine, moral, upstanding, law-abiding folks like all us Whites are (did you see my "meet the neighbors" mugshots videos?). Or best of all, Male, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant, like me! Life's unfair. I bet Granny had a saying for that.

Indeed, some human racial types may truly be better structured mentally for some things than for others which gives "innate tendencies." God made us in variety for variety's sake. Although I, being a married white guy, am in almost all regards a superior type, I definitely can't dance nor can I shoot hoops. (I've tried, I've really tried.)

All joking aside, whatever racial or social components may drive susceptibility to the "let's riot" (or crap where we sleep, as some put it on Ace) mentality, nothing innately makes an entire race like this. Can you imagine any event "triggering" Allen West to shout "Kill the Cops"? Can you imagine Dr. Ben Carson thinking, "Hey! A riot! I'll go steal me some new tennies!" Can you see Thomas Sowell out there smashing windows on slight provocation? When I watch the videos of Alfonzo Rachel, NRA spokesman Colion Noir, the always-hilarious "Doctor of Common Sense," or the young fellow I recently discovered going as That Guy T, not one of these people can I see doing such things. Strangely, each and every one of them is of the same ethnic persuasion as the folks out there who burned the QuikTrip to the ground after looting it clean.

[Point sufficiently belabored, stumbles off soapbox, cleans off muddy footprints for the next person, fades into background]