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The Chicano Moratorium Riots - 1970
Attica Prison Uprising - 1971
The Wounded Knee Occupation - 1973
The White Night Riots - 1979
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots - 1980
The 1990 Mercado Riots - 1990
1991 Washington DC Riots - 1991
Rodney King Riots - 1992
The Battle of Seattle - 1999
Cincinnati Riots - 2001
Oscar Grant Riots - 2009
Occupy Oakland - 2011
Furgeson Riots - 2014
Oakland Riots - 2014
Baltimore Riots - 2015
George Floyd Protests - 2020
People definitely didn't stop rioting after the 60s. They kept rioting, and the people doing it have been black, queer, hispanic, indigenous, incarcerated, etc. People who are on the absolute margins of society, that have the least to lose and the most to gain.
Kinda hard to make change when you're the minority, huh. Now imagine if 70% of the population rioted all the way to D.C..
the system works fine for the majority and extremely well for those with enough capital to be comfortable.
Maybe in the 60s, but the dissatisfaction at the wealth gap is astronomical rn.