The cry of the rioters was Burn Baby Burn.

They torched one building after another with Molotov cocktail.

This Safeway Market was among the 977 buildings damaged or destroyed during the six days of

riots.

For much of the late 1960s, America burned.

America was seething.

Fueled by segregation, economic isolation and police brutality, pent up anger and frustration

spilled into the streets of some of America's biggest cities.

Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and North New Jersey all erupted.

Hundreds were killed, many by police and there were tens of millions of dollars in damages.

At the time, the press and policymakers called them race riots.

Looking back though, that's kind of reductive.

More than just Mayhem and Chaos, these were rebellions, uprisings, something much more complicated

than riots.

What can we do?

What can you say behind all this murder?

I wish things could be better for the Negro people.

President Lyndon B. Johnson told the country that he wanted to understand what caused so

much violence and unrest.

My fellow Americans, we have endured a week such as no nation should live through.

I want to talk about that tragedy.

I want to talk about the deeper questions that it raises for us all.

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