Protests

Probably the same reason that the people who tear crap up instead of protesting ignore the reason for the protest. Probably because it's pretty hard to ignore when a whole town in the US is in utter chaos and flames. Probably because you can't concentrate on the issue when the background looks like Baghdad. Probably because they get tired of being called a racist for asking why those few bad apples continue to be allowed to distract folks from the real reason for a protest.

Probably because there are tons of folks who love nothing better than to add a few more nails to that gigantic cross they continually burden themselves with unnecessarily.

Probably because there is a town in America that looks like something straight out of a war zone and most people have never experienced anything like it before now. Not on our soil at any rate.

Naturally.... YMMV and I will likely be called a racist for holding a few of these opinions myself. As for whites speaking for blacks? I haven't seen much of that and don't take part in it myself. These divide and conquer tactics work quite nicely though as we can see from the many, many, many threads here on ATS saying exactly what this one does.

If you don't agree with what went down, if you don't blindly support the decisions made concerning Ferguson, if you aren't part of that flock, and if you don't toe the line of an LEO hater extraordinaire.... Then you are a racist.

It's a pointless endeavor to even keep bringing it up. Obviously no one can prove they aren't racist over the internet, so that too... Is yet another thing that keeps being brought up that distracts from the point behind the protest. You aided and abetted in this one it seems.

Bringing up how disgusting the riots and looting are, DOES NOT mean that you don't/didn't support Michael Brown. It DOES NOT mean that you don't think some things need to change. It DOES NOT mean anything other than you think people shouldn't go around town tearing up their neighbor's houses, cars, property, and the businesses there that had nothing to do with any of this. It simply means that you think there might have been a slightly better way to handle this situation other than to play perfectly into an existing, ugly, disgusting stereotype.

Disagreeing with rioting and looting and being a racist are NOT mutually exclusive no matter how many times people try to say otherwise.