Here come the usual looting and rioting doesn't solve anything comments.

[enki23]

176. No... you see, the Boston Tea Party was a tax revolt by mostly well-to-do people.`

Well-to-do white people who didn't want to pay taxes to cover the serious costs incurred by the wars against the French that were fought in no small part for their benefit. So, when well-to-do white people trash other well-to-do people's property because (yes, among other things) they're mad about taxes, that's awesome and worthy of celebrating to this day.

White people definitely never rioted or used violence, or damaged property in those days, you see. Except for all the times they did, which was lots of the times, which don't count. Like the time when they didn't riot during the lead-up to the Boston Massacre when mostly-white Bostonians threw rocks and things at British soldiers till the soldiers fired into the crowd. It's completely different because those soldiers were actually arrested and tried, unlike most cops guilty of killing black men in cold blood. So it's a happy story, even though most of them were acquitted. And anyway, there was only one famous non-white person involved in throwing things at the soldiers rather than lots of non-white people, which would have made it very not okay.

Wait.... I'm forgetting my point again. I think the point is... violence never solves anything except for all the times people I approve of used it to solve things for which we now have federal holidays and such.