Does the looting and vandalism in Ferguson, Mo. have anything in common with the Boston Tea Party in 1773?
It does if you ask these people:
I seem 2 recall a Boston Tea Party back inna day when some folks looted some property & threw it in some water & called Patriots. #Ferguson
— WhatFreshHellisThis (@BlackAFMermaid) August 11, 2014
White folks VERY concerned at the looting last night at #Ferguson while glorifying the Boston Tea Party. Ok. #MikeBrown
— ✪????? ?????-?????✪ (@sirjamesa12) August 11, 2014
Tea Party types condemning the property damage in #Ferguson – what's your movement named after, again?
— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/authenticallyG/status/498774475295703040
“It’s never good to riot.”
“What good does rioting do?”Why does no one ever say these things about the Boston Tea Party?
— Gustav Amlingmeyer (@MZGunter) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/_geminigirl1994/status/498758459870162944
https://twitter.com/__J_R/status/498848207150284800
What about the participants of the Boston tea party… That was a riot… And they blamed it on the minorities… #Ferguson
— Kapital 1 (@Kapital_1) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/SheSeauxSaditty/status/498840237800312833
if you continue to call the looters ignorant then stop calling The Boston Tea Party patriots.They destroyed "essential" community property
— VS | AC (@veronicastorm) August 11, 2014
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Always remember, the Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism and destruction of property #Ferguson
— Seth Bynum (@sefaref22) August 11, 2014
You all do know that the "Boston Tea Party" was a riot, right?
— A. Eye (@djalleneye) August 11, 2014
People forget that the Boston Tea Party can be considered a form of looting. Historians don't complain about that though.
— Southern Scholar-Blerd (@ADBoyntonII) August 11, 2014
Some are appalled by Black folks rioting, but The Boston Tea Party, looting, yelling "No taxation without representation," that's okay.
— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) August 11, 2014
@_StevenAllen_ Boston Tea Party, The American Revolution, etc…I'm not justifying the looting, but riot the fuck on. People are fed up.
— Holliday (@HotWingKilla) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/DoseOfJG/status/498711823357460480
Teach y'all about the Boston tea party right? Lol that was looting & rioting & destruction of prop yet it's glorified in the name of
— extrovertedintrovert (@CoutureDuchess) August 11, 2014
Fighting oppression & the feeling of hopelessness.
— extrovertedintrovert (@CoutureDuchess) August 11, 2014
.@VampiRPh Remember the Boston Tea Party? Who was the oppressor then? Were those actions inexcusable?
— Quarantine Annie (@grimalkinrn) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/FantaBender/status/498859708376424448
We call them riots when black people do it…what do we call the Boston tea party?
— No Relation, Esq. (@TheCosby) August 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/MauryCompson/status/498832089794740224
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