50 years ago.
And how many since then?
To say it has to stop sorta implies it is an ongoing action. And I suppose ongoing is relative; once per year? once every 5 years?
Etc?

What is different today? Not much in the attitudes of SOME blacks. The real game changer is the media. They can focus in on the size of a football field and present it as though it were a wholesale situation....when it is not or ever has been.

Another factor that has not changed is the number of the rioters who are not from the area and are shipped in the represent a cause of some political or special interest entity.

We also happen to have a black POTUS who does not know enough to not allow his race to enter into play in these incidents. He does not have the ability or the desire to rise above the fray as a good POTUS can do. Because like it or not he is invested. He is black.

And yes we should all fear martial law. Especially at the federal level because then Obama is entitled to a whole new set of rules at his disposal then. Including the delaying of elections!!!!!

The current situation with blacks and the daily rantings of racism and the police is a VERY MANIPULATED SITUATION.