Doc what you say here makes 100% sense and cannot be disputed, however I feel there is one major difference between the two: purity.
Depending on what you believe in the media there is a serious lack of purity in these protests. You have people stoking the fires for their own gain, they could care less about the true issue, they just want to be in the spotlight for their own gain.
When you have people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton saying some totally stupid and off base things just to rile people up, get their name out there, and make some $$$ off the situation, that is where purity goes out the window.
Its 2014, there has to be a better way to fix a situation than to riot and torch the town. People get all weird and crazy when you throw race and race relations into things. It drags out of the dark the fact that humans are really good at hating other humans for some of the dumbest reasons.
As long as we celebrate stupidity in this country masked as freedom there will always be hate.
TLDR: People suck and will do whatever they need to do to put themselves above the cause to get what they want and Doc is smarter than all of us.