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True there. By example, all germans of a certain generation paid a price after Hitler's crimes, unjustly or not.

Racism and other injustices in the system have been perpetrated for centuries. When the tide turns, there is a blanket application of outrage on everyone, regardless of involvement.

There was a time when any act by a colored person was subject to abuse by authorities (and indirectly by a silent majority). The blacks couldn't do a thing right - if they weren't being a slave, under that system. The same yardstick is being applied now on the other side - blindly. I am not for one moment saying revenge is OK or anything is justified.. its just the nature of mobs.

We had an (orderly) mob rule (masquerading as the rule of law) over blacks then, and we have a kind of a mob rule now (the beginnings of ..) . Its too much to ask a mob to analyze.



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