Many times when someone is accused of being racist, they're accused of not having experience with the black community, and told that spending time there might be culturally enriching for them (as per actual definition).
These folks want to hold up the riots as evidence that supporters of the black community are the ones who don't understand it to try to turn that accusation around. In essence, they believe that they know more about the problems there than we do.
The reason that they're wrong is that they're judging day to day life by the standards of 5 minutes of cherry-picked violence that they falsely believe is representative of everyday life there.
Which is not unequivocal proof that there isn't a problem in black communities. There is. But solving those problems requires the 'cultural enrichment' and in depth knowledge that comes from getting to know the people who live there, and how and why those problems come about.
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