that awful something called a riot...

1980's the years of the riots. This is a time most of our parents would like to forget, a time of sorrow and misery,  but, whilst these riots were not entirely justifiable, they had a clear and good reason for doing it, they were rebelling against the extreme racism bestowed upon the black and Asian community by police officers, however, do today's youths have a reason? do they have a justifiable motive? i think not.

My life, well the first 15 years, i cannot afterall speack for the future, have been relatively sheltered, i have food on my table and a house, whilst my parents are not exactly rolling in money we've always lived comfortabltly and i'd say this represents most of Britain, so why the august 2011 riots? why? the word on everyones lips...

One boy on the radio said its because these people have had nothing for so long, but have they really had "nothing". When your a widowed lady with 6 children living in a mud hut in a third world country with no money or belongings to your name, no food and no clean water and a government that offers you no help, then, then you have nothing, but even then , these people appear to have a faith that is most admirable. We, the British people, live world where instead of disease, education is a given, instead of hunger, free health care is guaranteed, and instead of corruption we have democracy, compared to many people across the world we have everything, and i think these riots a  portray a minority of today's youths as ungrateful, they have decided they have nothing compared to some people so are destroying what others have, children are being left homeless, and that part of all this, that's sickening. This started out as vengeance for Mark Duggans death, if that's really what this is still about then surely their problem is with the police, not a single mother and her 6 year old boy on the news who are now homeless, never have the selfish acts of so few affected the lives of so many innocent people. My thoughts and best wishes go out to all the people affected by these riots, and my thoughts also go to the brave men and women trying to protect and help them, the actions of these people, in my opinion, are un-forgiveable, buildings WW2 soldiers gave there lives to save for the people of Britain are being destroyed for what? in all honesty, i don't think anybody really knows.