The Truth About South African Apartheid

A while back, a longtime dear reader in the once wonderful nation of South Africa sent us a book titled, Kill the Boer, by Ernst Roets. The well-researched 400 page book about the farm murder epidemic comes with a small warning on the lower left side of the cover: WARNING Content not for sensitive readers. Just a general inspection of the contents and images confirmed that this particular “sensitive” reader might not be able to get through it. Tales of torture and suffering tend to deeply depress me for a day or two, which is why I never made it all the way through Thomas Goodrich’s“Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany” either.

Actually, the images aren’t too bad — no graphic gore or tied-up mutilated dead White farmers with crucifixes shoved down their throats (which I have seen on the Internet). But there was one that, even for the Satanic low standards of “the new South Africa,” really shocked me. It depicts members of the communist ANC African National Congress staging a protest in which White baby dolls were stabbed, hanged and crucified. Though unable to find the book’s photo on the Internet, there are similar ones which we discovered and publish here for your viewing.

White baby dolls being smacked and tied to signs which read  “Racist” and “Nazi,” impaled on machetes, and hung in effigy — and this is 25 years AFTER the dismantling of Apartheid!

The book was accompanied by a brief but extremely informative and powerful article (adapted from Mike Smith’s “Opening Apartheid’s Pandora’s Box“) titled, The Real Story of Apartheid, which is reproduced below. Only the images and captions have been added, for your enhanced understanding, by yours truly.

THE REAL STORY OF APARTHEID

(Not told by S.A. Government)

According to some – “there’s an ugly reality that we can’t sweep under the rug; that apartheid benefited White South Africans at the cost of all others.”

Oh, really? Whose reality is that? Let us put it to the test.

Since 1970 the budget for black education was raised by 30% per year every year. More than any other government department. During the period 1955 -1984 the amount of black school students increased 31 times from 35,000 to 1,096,000 — and 65% of black school South African school children were at school compared to Egypt 64%, Nigeria 57%. Ghana 52%, Tanzania 50% and Ethiopia 29%.

Amongst the adults of South Africa, 71% could read and write (80% between the ages 12 and 22). Compare in South Africa, the whites built 15 new classrooms for blacks every working day, every year. At 40 children per class, it meant space for an additional 600 students every day!

In 1985 there were 42,000 blacks at 5 universities in South Africa, about the same amount at the universities of the homelands (another 40,000 at another five). On an article titled “Die Afrikaner” of 11 Feb 1987, the quarterly magazine called “Vox Africana” Nr. 29 4/87 stated that: South Africa had 4.8 million whites and 18.2 million Blacks in 1987. The whites paid 77% of the taxes and the blacks only 15%… despite this, 56% of the government budget was spent on blacks.

During the time of Dr. Verwoerd, living standards of blacks were rising at 5.4% per year against that of the whites at 3.9% per year. In 1965 the economic growth of South Africa was a mere 2% per annum and the prime interest rate only 3% per annum. Domestic savings were so great that South Africa needed no foreign loans for economic expansion.

Even Lord Deedes admitted: “White South Africa grew to become the economic giant of the continent, the other members of the Commonwealth virtually sank into poverty.”

1. Under Apartheid (segregation) Many Black school children received a high quality education — paid for mainly by White taxpayers  — not available in most African nations. // 2. The integrated Kaizer Chiefs football club. Contrary to Fake News / Fake Academia / Hollywood propaganda, there did exist cooperation and friendship among the races in Apartheid South Africa . //  3. Young terrorist scum such as Nelson Mandela  (working for the Globalists) sought the destruction of White South Africa not because of “anti-racism,” but for the cause of degenerate Marxism and its long range goal of White Genocide.

(Continued)

At the height of Apartheid in 1978, Soweto had 115 football fields, 3 rugby fields, 4 athletic tracks, 11 cricket fields, 2 golf courses, 47 tennis courts, 7 swimming pools built to Olympic standards, 5 bowling alleys, 81 netball fields, 39 children play parks, and countless civic halls, movie houses and clubhouses.

In addition to this, Soweto had 300 churches, 365 schools, 2 Technical Colleges, 8 clinics, 63 child day-care centres, 11 Post Offices and its own fruit and vegetable market. There were 2300 registered companies that belonged to black businessmen, about 1000 private taxi companies. 3% of the 50,000 vehicle owners in 1978 were Mercedes Benz owners. Soweto alone had more private vehicles than the entire white population of the USSA at the time. Today Soweto has more modern shopping malls like Dobsonville shopping Centre. In 2005 the Protea Gardens Mall was opened, followed by the Baramall Shopping Centre and the Jabulani Shopping Complex and the Maponya Mall. Experts say that Soweto has as much as 25% oversupply of retail space.

The biggest hospital in the world, Baragwanath, with 2300 beds and at its peak during apartheid with almost 8000 staff, had 23 operating theatres fitted out with the most modern medical equipment that existed in the world. Blacks were treated here, operated on – at full state costs to the WHITE taxpayers for unlimited periods. The budget for this hospital was – and is – higher than the annual budget of most small members of the United Nations.

Next door to Baragwanath is the St John’s Eye Clinic. The clinic was world famous for the treatment of glaucoma, cataracts, traumatic eye injuries and rare tropical diseases. Baragwanath in 1978 employed 450 medical doctors in full-time service. It treated 112,000 in-patients and 1.62-million outpatients per year. The children and infant death rate was lower than Harlem in New York. In 1982 alone this hospital performed 898 heart operations of world quality. Ironically – 90% of the blood donors for this hospital were WHITES who donated blood free of charge, totally voluntarily – to save BLACK lives. (Quoted from The Citizen, April 1987.)

Whites have already given blacks their blood. What more so they want? This information has been hidden long enough.

** End of article***

1. Murderous Mandela (died in 2013), his sick, twisted wife at the time, Winnie, and Jewish South African chief of the SA Communist Party Joe Slovo show their true colors. // 2. The book is “Kill the Boer” — after a “folk song” that ANC members (including Mandela & Slovo) often sing in public. (The Boers are the descendants of Dutch & French Huguenot settlers who arrived at the tip of Africa centuries ago and then trekked inland.)

In the Globalist West, the filthy terrorist and “father of the new South Africa” (imprisoned for 27 years but allowed access to wine & women) had some powerful friends in high places. His ghoulish gang of grease-balls could never have destroyed South Africa without the western big boys….And make no mistake, what (((they))) did to the Whites of South Africa is EXACTLY what (((they))) have planned for the USA, Europe, Australia and Canada.

Far from being a system of “racial oppression,” Apartheid was actually a method of self defense and preservation for the tiny White minority which built up a great nation from scratch before most Blacks even arrived in their territory seeking work and a better life. Thanks again to our dear lady friend in South Africa — who needs to get herself and her beautiful children and grandchildren  to Russia or some other safe and sane place for big bad White folk. Let us all do our small part to help her and others by sharing this censored information as best we can.

From Russia Today:
“Up to 15,000 Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, are planning to move to Russia amid rising violence stemming from government plans to expropriate their land, according to a (South African) delegation.

“It’s a matter of life and death – there are attacks on us. It’s got to the point where the politicians are stirring up a wave of violence,” Adi Slebus told the media. “The climate here (Stavropol Region) is temperate, and this land is created by God for farming. All this is very attractive.”

Melinda Gates: ‘Black… Indigenous People’ Should Get COVID Vaccine First

(LifeSiteNews) – As work continues on developing a vaccine for COVID-19, left-wing philanthropist Melinda Gates says that “black people” and “indigenous people” in America should be immunized against the virus before whites.

“One of the reasons we are so involved in this is that you don’t want the first vaccines to go to the highest-bidding countries,” said Gates, wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Fox Business reports. “There are 60 million healthcare workers [around the world]. They deserve to get the vaccine first, they’re the ones dealing with this on the front lines, trying to keep us all safe.”

“Then you have to start to tier from there, based on the countries and the populations,” she continued. “Here in the United States, it’s going to be black people who really should get it first and many indigenous people, as well as people with underlying symptoms, and then elderly people.”

Mrs. Gates’ remarks came during the couple’s virtual appearance at the Forbes philanthropy summit last week.

While many frame a vaccine as a prerequisite for fully reopening society, the prospect of making it mandatory remains controversial for a number of reasons.

While mainstream media often fixates on parents who oppose vaccines based on hotly-debated fears over side effects, they tend to overlook another group that supports vaccines in general while having an ethical conflict with vaccines derived from aborted babies’ cells.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s role in funding COVID-19 vaccine research has been a point of particular concern, due in large part to the couple’s history as radical advocates for abortion and population control.

“It is important for people to understand why so many are suspicious of the philanthropy of Bill Gates and his ilk, and why so many react with suspicion to the medical opinions of a certain sector of our elites,” LifeSiteNews’ Jonathon Van Maren explains.

“It is because they lie to us about abortion, day in and day out, and tell us that destroying a child in the womb is “health care” and “an essential service.”

It is because they tell us that the birth control pill has no side effects and is also health care, that the abortion pill is safe, that abortion has no negative impact on women, and hundreds of other lies that we know to be lies.”

During last week’s event, Bill Gates accused the US government of withdrawing from “global problem-solving” and “just trying to cast blame” by withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) over its initial response to the coronavirus outbreak, namely its adoption of Chinese misinformation.

The Trump administration emphatically rejects claims that abandoning the WHO constitutes abandoning the COVID-19 relief effort.

“The United States continues to be the undisputed leader in foreign assistance,” James Richardson, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources at the State Department, said last month, noting that the US is currently responsible for “49 percent of all government and multilateral assistance” in response to COVID-19.

As of June 24, the United States is estimated to have seen more than 2.4 million COVID-19 cases, with more than 123,000 deaths and a million recoveries. More than 40 percent of those deaths have come from nursing homes.

Race Bait And The Controlled Opposition Protests

Controlled opposition protests have been happening not just throughout the 50 US states but on 3 continents worldwide, from London to Seoul to Melbourne.

Why?

Why would the people of Europe, Asia and Australia care so much about the alleged murder of a black man that they would feel compelled to actually take to the streets and protest over it, given the incident didn’t even even happen in their country?

For those following the worldwide conspiracy closely, these kind of things are clues that this whole event – race baiting, agent provocateurs, conveniently dropped off pallets of bricks, looting, Antifa, BLM (Black Lives Matter), government-sanctioned controlled opposition protests and more – is yet another piece of social engineering from the NWO (New World Order) script.

The same old race-baiters are behind the BLM and Antifa violent protests

It’s a blatant divide-and-conquer tactic devised to distract people away from the serious rights and freedoms that are being destroyed under the guise of fighting a pandemic.

It’s a transparent ploy to stoke and then exploit racial tension. So, let’s take a look at how the NWO manipulators are doing it.

Controlled Opposition Protests Actively Encouraged By Government

The first clue things are not as they seem in the Matrix is that numerous government officials have been telling people to protest! That’s right; not only have officials stated they have no problem with people demonstrating, they have actually encouraged and promoted it.

Why?

• When has government ever done this in the past?
• Why on earth would self-interested politicians want people to protest against them unless it was part of their plan?
• What self-respecting activist needs to be formally and officially invited by the government to protest?

If red flags haven’t gone up for you when you hear that, you need to seriously develop your skepticism and bullshit detect-o-meter.

What would you think if a bank formally invited thieves to come and rob it that night, and rolled out the red carpet for them to do so?

People need to realize that:

– it serves the NWO agenda for people to fight among themselves so they are divided not united against the real threat (the enslavement of the mass population by the social engineers, banksters and conspirators);

– its serves the NWO agenda for people to be focused on imaginary, inflated or unimportant issues (race wars) rather than actual and essential issues (the destruction of freedom and inherent rights);

– whether people protest or not, stay at home or not, social distance or not, wear a mask or not etc., has nothing to do with science, reason or logic and everything to do with how it serves the NWO agenda.

For instance, when COVID was the focus in March-May, it served the ruling class for everyone to be OCD and scared of everyone and everything around them.

Now, it serves the ruling class for people to protest, which is why social distancing has dropped off the radar and no one seems to care about enforcing or performing it anymore.

Yet, logically, if there were a contagious virus that was on the loose, and social distancing worked, why would it suddenly not work just because a black man was killed?;

– the masses are being played by the pied piper.

When authorities tell them to stay at home, they obey.

When authorities tell them to be scared (immensely scared), they obey.

When authorities tell them to social distance, they obey.

When authorities tell them to wear a mask, they obey.

Now, when authorities tell them to dutifully protest, they obey.

So tell me: where were all these protestors 3 months ago when a coup was being pulled off to permanently transform society? Hiding in their houses like scared little mice, most of them;

– Social engineers are telling you how to think, how to feel and what you allowed to be angry at.

You’re not allowed to question the scientific basis of the fake pandemic; you’re not allowed to be angry at forced contact tracing surveillance and vaccination; but you may be angry at racism, as long as it’s white on black racism.

How do you like being told what to feel?;

– These controlled-opposition protests are corporate-sponsored. Nike, Amazon and all the big corporate giants can’t tell you fast enough how much they deeply care for black people.

Sure, some of this is good old-fashioned virtue-signalling (look at me, look how pious I am) and market posturing which will be calculatedly exploited to increase profit.

However, it is also more evidence that this entire phenomenon is scripted by the big players who are in on the agenda and are collectively and systematically promoting it;

– As with any MSM-reported event, we have to question everything.

If Floyd was really killed by police officer Chauvin as depicted in the video, is it just a coincidence that they both knew each other and worked as security for the same club (as reported here)?

A Quick Look At BLM (Black Lives Matter)

It is an open secret (pun intended) that George Soros funds groups like Antifa and BLM. Therefore, it is logical to think that part of BLM’s mission will be to carry out Soros agendas.

So what is BLM’s mission? Let’s take a look at their website:

“We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities. We work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people.

“We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.

“We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

“We see ourselves as part of the global Black family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black people who exist in different parts of the world.”

So far, so good. This is to be expected for an organization formed to stand up for Black rights. But look what it goes into next:

“We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.

We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.

We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.

We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

Whoa! Wait a minute here. What does standing up for black rights and standing against racism have to do with sexual identity, transgenderism, “cisgender privilege”, feminism, sexism, misogyny and gay rights?

What is going on here?

A good 40-50% of their “What We Believe” page, which is like a mission statement, has absolutely nothing to do with blacks at all!

This is yet another clue that reveals that society is being steered in a certain direction which has nothing to do with genuine care for black people or a genuine desire to stop racism.

Many blacks are getting it, such as Candace Owens and this passionate and intelligent black man who tells his white friends that “All Lives Matter”, that they shouldn’t be feeling any white guilt just for being white and that they should absolutely not buy into the lie that white people today should pay reparations to black people today.

Obama Foundation Foreknowledge? Releases Poster Picture Of George Floyd … 8 Days Before He Dies

George Floyd was a troubled individual and a felon, who had done things in his past such as hold a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly. He apparently had meth and fentanyl in his bloodstream at the time of death. The below tweet from the Obama Foundation is dated May 17th:

Snopes predictably defends the Obama Foundation by claiming Twitter automatically updated the image from the tweet later on. Do you buy that?

Or was there a poster of Floyd prepared at least 8 days before he died? If so, this kind of foreknowledge is typical of psychological operations and false flag events where the entire incident is planned well in advance, the real orchestrators are hidden from public sight and the event is made to look like a random occurrence.

Consider all the foreknowledge involved in the 911 false flag attack (e.g. BBC knowing that WTC7 would fall before it happened), Sandy Hook (e.g. donation and charity pages going live before the event) and all the other false flag ops where the drill went live by a stroke of sheer luck.

Questions To Consider In Looking Closely At BLM And The Controlled Opposition Protests

In this Instagram video, Tommy Vext does a great short analysis of how this thing works: the MSM focuses on BLM and Antifa, who are in turn funded by Soros, the Clintons and others. Agent provocateurs make it look like normal, peaceful Black Americans are violent and crazy. The same people who orchestrated the event control the MSM to direct people’s perception of it.

The great website Off Guardian did an article on 20 unanswered questions surrounding the death of George Floyd plus the subsequent protests and riots. I have taken some of them and added in my own below:

1. Why are people protesting in Australia, Korea and the UK over the death of an American black man?

2. Police brutality is rife over-militarized America. It happens all the time. Why is this death different? Why did the George Floyd video suddenly get noticed, and not the dozens of other videos of police being brutally violent? Why is an allegedly grass-roots social revolution enjoying sponsorship as if they were a sports team?

3. Why are we being led to obsess over race?

4. Why are we being led to hyper-focus on the idea that individuals should be defined in terms of their group identity – not their personality or – as Martin Luther King Jr. famously said – the content of their character?

5. As Douglas Murray writes in his article Why I won’t ‘take the knee’, when does this over-correction end? How much longer do white people need to apologize and prostrate themselves at the feet of black people for the crime of being white, even when they are not racist themselves and it’s 100% about what some white people (not even their direct ancestors) did to some black people generations ago?

Murray writes:

“The current moment of over-correction appears to consist of an attempt to make all white people confess to some culpability in racist murder …

“Who will tell you when you have over-corrected for long enough?” and “How would you know that you have?” Perhaps most pertinently for the present moment is the question “How would you be sure that this overswing of the pendulum in one direction does not lead to its overswing in the other direction when it starts to head back?””

6. If these are not controlled opposition protests, and the looters genuinely care about black lives, why are rioters attacking so many black businesses?

7. Caitlin Johnstone writes about this video:

“An officer with the Saint Paul Police Department has been publicly named by someone identified as the officer’s ex-wife, who said his voice, walk and gas mask made her “90% sure” it was him. The Saint Paul Police Department has denied this. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but it is a very safe bet that it’s a law enforcement officer of some kind. Disruptive police infiltration of protest movements is a historical constant in America, after all. It is the norm, not the exception.”

8. Who is pushing the idea of defunding the police? Why? While police brutality is a big problem in America, there is possibly a bigger problem: having no police at all.

This would create a power vacuum and likely lead to either mob rule (with more rioting, looting and theft), martial law or a new kind of force to “keep the order” which could mean national or international police.

If the latter, this would mean new police that are entirely disconnected from the community they are policing and its needs. Is the call to defund the police part of the New World Order strategy to create even less connection between the rulers/enforcers and the rest of us?

Conclusion: Protests Play Right Into The Government’s Hands

These protest and riots are exactly what the government wants. Government is pretty useless at taking care of most things, but if it’s one thing it excels at, it’s taking care of riots.

Governments love violence.

When people get violent, it gives the power-hungry control freak politicians the perfect excuse they need to mobilize the police and military.

Government has way more firepower than the people, so there’s no point fighting them int that arena. It won’t work.

By the way, did you know that some governments have already begun using contact tracing (supposedly just to protect against COVID) to track arrestees?

Clearly, the social engineers have certain formulas they use to control the masses. One common tactic is for them to race bait, invoke massive emotion, stir up anger and create social unrest. It’s like flicking a switch.

Just when people were starting to become really fed up and angry with the ridiculous restrictions of the fake pandemic, the NWO controllers decided it was time to inject a new narrative into the mass consciousness. Stay alert and aware.

Proof That The Narrative Behind The Protests Is Pure Propaganda – Instagram Censors FBI Stats Graph

The mainstream media and the top social media networks have become indoctrination channels, who censor the truth while spreading fake news and propaganda, resembling more and more with George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.

They are also engaging in whitewashing the internet – a modern take on the infamous “book burning” – as well as re-writing history.

They have destroyed the internet, with Google and YouTube (as well as all major social media networks) now hiding factual information that goes against the script, stoping truthful information from becoming viral, all while promoting official narratives, even if they are fake news or propaganda.

Here Is The Latest Example Of Censoring The Truth – Or How Free Speech Becomes “Hate Speech” When Challenging The Lies Of The Powers That Shouldn’t Be:

Chris Menahan of InformationLiberation reports:

Facebook-owned Instagram is now censoring FBI crime statistic graphs as “hate speech,” according to Blaze TV’s Elijah Schaffer.

“Instagram is now removing FBI crime statistic graphs,” Schaffer said Saturday on Twitter. “Posted with the necessary citations [as] ‘hate speech.’”

“We are getting to the point where narratives are more important than truth,” Schaffer said. “And the truth when inconvenient makes you a hateful person. This is 1984.”

Instagram is now removing FBI crime statistic graphs

Posted with the necessary citations

As “hate speech”

We are getting to the point where narratives are more important than truth

And the truth when inconvenient makes you a hateful person

This is 1984 pic.twitter.com/ECP2wikj5E

— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) June 6, 2020

This Is The “Hate Graph” He Posted, Which Is Based Off FBI Crime Stats From 2013:

It Makes Sense That Instagram Would Want It Censored As It Debunks The Media’s Entire False Victimization Narrative:

While Instagram has apparently deemed FBI crime stats off limits, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are now running them on their front pages.

For example, Fox News included these lines in their headline article on Sunday titled, “Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey rejects city council’s push to defund police, despite veto-proof majority“:

Nationally, efforts to defund the police have been broadly unpopular, with only about 20 percent of Americans favoring reductions in police forces. Citing publicly available data, commentators have asserted that the very idea of systemic racism by police is questionable.

“In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population,” Heather Mac Donald wrote in The Wall Street Journal this week.

“In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims,” she went on. “Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019.

“By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.”

Mac Donald continued:

“A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects.

“Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police.”

Fryer’s work has also determined that when police pull out of communities, black deaths tend to increase.

“The false narrative of systemic police bias resulted in targeted killings of officers during the Obama presidency,” Mac Donald concluded.

While Instagram is censoring FBI crime stats as “hate speech,” on their official account they’re still promoting a “disabled trans model” named Aaron Philip who last year explicitly called for the “killing” of all “transphobes.”

And lets not forget that in 2019, 41 unarmed Americans were killed by police (19 whites, 9 blacks, 6 Hispanics, 7 other) is this what BLM is talking about?

51 kids were killed in school shooting (2019)

Saying “defund the police” to protect 41 wrongfully killed American is like saying “ban schools” to protect 51 wrongfully killed kids.

Its time to wake up and see things for what they are.

Mapping Civil Unrest In The United States (2000–2020) | Zero Hedge

Protests are a regular feature of democratic society, but, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley explores below, they can occasionally cross over from non-violent demonstrations into civil unrest. Even protests that are largely peaceful can still result in arrests, violence, police aggression, and property damage.

Visual Capitalist’s animated map below looks at the last two decades of civil unrest in the United States using lists compiled on Wikipedia.

Instances of civil unrest eventually leave the news cycle, and we rarely have the chance to examine the bigger picture or see where they fit within a nation-wide pattern.

From this map we can see that certain cities, such as St. Louis and Oakland, have been disproportionately impacted by civil unrest. As well, universities have also been hotspots for rioting, though often for much different reasons.

Looking back over two decades, we see that instances of civil unrest in the United States have fallen into roughly four categories:

1. Economic and social injustice
2. Sports and event related riots
3. Politically motivated civil unrest
4. Reaction to police actions

Let’s take a look at a prominent example in each of these categories, to get further context.

Examples of Civil Unrest, by Category

1. Economic and Social Justice

One of the most prominent examples in this category is the Occupy Wall Street movement. The protests began in September 2011 in Downtown Manhattan, and soon spread through cities throughout the world.

In 2016, the Dakota Access Pipeline protests grabbed headlines around the world as protesters faced off against armed soldiers and police with riot gear and military equipment. By the time camps were broken up the next year, hundreds of people had been arrested.

2. Sports and Event Related Riots

Between 2000 and 2010, the majority of incidents plotted on the map are related to sports and events. This includes major sporting events like the L.A. Lakers championship win in 2000, but also the University of Maryland riot of 2004, where rowdy post-game celebrations crossed over into arson and property damage.

A more recent example is the Philadelphia Eagles’ first-ever Super Bowl victory in 2018, where celebrations eventually got out of hand.

3. Politically Motivated Civil Unrest

The political divide has been growing in America for years now, but those differences more frequently resulted in confrontations and civil unrest in 2016. After the election of Donald Trump, for example, protests erupted in many cities, with riots breaking out in Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California.

Of course, the “Bundy standoff” – an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement over withheld grazing fees – showed that not all civil unrest takes place in America’s cities.

4. Reaction to Police Actions

Some of the biggest flashpoints seen in recent years have been in response to people who were killed by police.

In fact, more than half of the points on our map were a direct response to incidents in which a person – typically a black male – died at the hands of law enforcement officials. In previous years, the unrest that followed was typically confined to the cities where the death took place, but protests are now increasingly erupting in cities around the country.

The Situation Now

The death of George Floyd – the latest black male to be killed during an encounter with law enforcement – has had a ripple effect, spawning protests in cities around the United States and internationally.

As our map showing the history of civil unrest makes clear, excessive force from police against black citizens is nothing new. The data shows that black men have by far the highest risk of being killed in an encounter with law enforcement.

Until these systemic issues are addressed, history may not repeat exactly, but the rhyme will sound very, very familiar