Within the urban development of our country, injustice has been the underlying factor in the creation of a system that is meant to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. However those who face adversity and oppression under the government often can take but so much of it before riots and protest began to be the center of the oppressed communities. The government has only met the demands of the citizen through temporary fixes, but has not made any substantial changes or reforms to bridge the gap between the wealthy and the poor. In result, we see a reemergence of anti-police protests and riots in the United States, only because the issues of racial and economic injustice has never been solved, only masked with systematic memetic reform.
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While the civil rights movement had been in action, It has reached an all time high after the assassination of civil rights leader, Dr.Martin Luther King. In 100 Years: The Riots of 1968, Michael Yokel states “Sparked by the April 4 assassination of civil-rights patriarch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, and fueled by decades of repressed anger and resentment over perceived political, social, and economic injustices, African-American communities erupted in violence in Baltimore and many other U.S. cities—New York, Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Tallahassee—with Chicago and Washington, D.C., suffering the most extensive damage.” In response to the mass riots across the country, the government prevents these riots from escalating through the implantation of national guardsmen, state troopers, and city …show more content…
The government has learned to mask the its bias through selective incorporation, as to where more black leaders hold positions in political offices. In the areas where blacks held political office (ex. Kenneth Allen Gibson, the first black mayor of any major North-Eastern Us City, who was elected in 1970 as the 34th Mayor of Newark NJ), the city whites, and those who carry a higher income decided to leave, which ultimately aided to the declination of the towns local businesses and homes. In addition to failed hoped of a black politician in office, the government is in opposition to revitalizing these cities through indirect rule. Cities were gutted because the state overruled many of its wants, especially when black mayors tried to make reforms that were not favored over the cities desires. This claims support the article “Why American Cities don’t Burn” by Katz where he states “No single reason explains why American cities did not burn. Rather, the relative absence of civil violence resulted from the concatenation of several factors. These fall under three broad headings: the ecology of power, the management of marginalization, and the incorporation and control of immigrants.” The ecology of power is distributed based on the amount of money that one group of people may have, in
While the civil rights movement had been in action, It has reached an all time high after the assassination of civil rights leader, Dr.Martin Luther King. In 100 Years: The Riots of 1968, Michael Yokel states “Sparked by the April 4 assassination of civil-rights patriarch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, and fueled by decades of repressed anger and resentment over perceived political, social, and economic injustices, African-American communities erupted in violence in Baltimore and many other U.S. cities—New York, Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Tallahassee—with Chicago and Washington, D.C., suffering the most extensive damage.” In response to the mass riots across the country, the government prevents these riots from escalating through the implantation of national guardsmen, state troopers, and city …show more content…
The government has learned to mask the its bias through selective incorporation, as to where more black leaders hold positions in political offices. In the areas where blacks held political office (ex. Kenneth Allen Gibson, the first black mayor of any major North-Eastern Us City, who was elected in 1970 as the 34th Mayor of Newark NJ), the city whites, and those who carry a higher income decided to leave, which ultimately aided to the declination of the towns local businesses and homes. In addition to failed hoped of a black politician in office, the government is in opposition to revitalizing these cities through indirect rule. Cities were gutted because the state overruled many of its wants, especially when black mayors tried to make reforms that were not favored over the cities desires. This claims support the article “Why American Cities don’t Burn” by Katz where he states “No single reason explains why American cities did not burn. Rather, the relative absence of civil violence resulted from the concatenation of several factors. These fall under three broad headings: the ecology of power, the management of marginalization, and the incorporation and control of immigrants.” The ecology of power is distributed based on the amount of money that one group of people may have, in