And I'll clarify my position (in spite of attempts at PC
censorship).

Whereas retaliatory racial violence may or may not be objectively
justified, it is the inevitable result when racial violence
is initiated by the dominant group, and where justice is not
given by other members of that dominant group who are duty-bound
to enforce the law.

It is fairly easy, from the point of view of one who is not
the member of a group which is currently under organized attack,
or oppression to criticize those who either, in a calculated manner,
return violence for violence, or lash out in anger at members of the
dominant group.

To demand a 'civilized' and 'reasoned' response from those who
face oppression and organized violence is, however, to buy right
into what dominant groups who have most of the guns and the
courts and the laws and the prisons and the economic power have
done for a long time...to declare that the ones with grievances
are nothing but hooligans, thugs and 'terrorists.'

The results become clear--- the 'White Night' and Rodney King riots,
Watts, Newark, Detroit. Closer to home, the 9/11 attacks and the
aftermath bear witness to what happens when we sit in our positions
of power and refuse to act justly.