La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for September 05, 2014

Seems to me the rioting also took place where looting was a successful enterprise… I don’t believe Everybody there was truly upset about Mr. Brown.

There are more riots and looting by white people in America than other races. Just check every year after sports events. Heck everytime the Red Wings win or when an important ncaa game. It’s just that the media only sees something wrong when its minorities who are tired of getting burned by the system.

Don’t believe me, this year alone in Arizona after a game, and also when the UConn Huskies won a game and that’s just off the top of my head. I can find many more via Bing/Google. But in the words of Chris Rock, “It’s all right…cuz its all white”

Well Lalo you almost had a good thought provoking strip, unfortunately you decided to make a U-turn before finishing the strip. If you listened to the family and day time demonstrators, they pleaded with the public not to riot. The rioters and looters were mostly from surrounding areas. Until people take charge of their neighborhoods and are willing to fight the scum element instead of the police nothing will improve.

It’s not the shuttle, Rush. Maybe it’s the National Guard that protects wealthy areas?

You know that, I know that, try telling that to Al Sharpton, and all the race baiters and apologists.

I still have to wonder — how does setting fire to the mini-mart, smashing a window at the computer store, or walking off with an armload of whatever help solve injustice or honor a winning team?It’s simple — these miscreants are just using another excuse to steal and commit arson. In the case of riots following social injustices, they strongly reinforce the stereotypes (even if they are of a different “category”.)Hate to add this, Lalo, but this strip does nothing to cure those social ills.

Yes. It may have been better to simply say “wealthy neighborhoods” and leave it at that. Though to be fair, the rhetoric Alcaraz is responding to is a highly racialized one, focused on Ferguson, questioning why black people would hurt themselves through riots—not just why poor people in general would hurt their own neighborhoods through riots. Also to be fair, residents of wealthy neighborhoods are way more disproportionately white than they are people of color. Much as you might like to think that a few wealthy Latinos and black people means that everything is racially equal these days, it simply is not. And keep in mind, Alcaraz is responding to racialized rhetoric specifically aimed against black folks, and is calling that out here. To you that apparently sounds biased, but it’s actually countering a “white is right” racial bias that you seem to want to deny.

“I doubt we are talking about Ferguson today”

It depends on who the “we” is; it’s a rather imprecise word in this context. If “we” refers to La Cucaracha, then yep, I disagree with Night-Gaunt. Shocker, huh?

“There is only one human race here, not several.”Then racialized rhetoric wouldn’t mean much?

In this case, I disagree with you, indie, and maybe a bit with Night-Gaunt. Strictly scientifically speaking, the human race is just one species. But race is a reality that we humans have created. And as such, it is very, very real. Us all being one species sure doesn’t stop us from having racial categories on census forms. It sure didn’t stop the US from having race-based slavery, Jim Crow, and all the rest. It sure didn’t stop apartheid from happening. We need to recognize both that we all indeed are one species—something that a lot of white supremacists want to deny—and that race, as a human construct, is very, very real and the way it plays out in this country has all sorts of very, very real effects on people’s material lives. (Just like human constructs such as democracy, capitalism, gender, etc., etc., etc.)

Someone here seems to be of a different opinion.

The thing that’s slimy about this sort of remark (used in two posts, word for word) is that 1) It allows you to avoid putting your own opinions on the line by not saying anything about what you yourself think; and 2) It’s simply there to try to stir up conflict. (As if any two people won’t disagree at some point!) There really is nothing truth-seeking about it; it’s simply another expression of your inner problem child, trying to score comments-section points.