Let's Start a Riot!!!!!!!

When you think of the word, Riot, what do you normally think of? Some might say chaos, anarchy, disorder, and maybe even rebellion.  There are pretty much thousands of words that can justify the meaning of this four letter word.  It can bring up certain images that throughout history it stills creates the same feelings for those who were apart of it along with those who begin open up it’s textbook and start to places themselves in these events.  In reading about the flour riots of 1887, there seems to always be an inevitable stigma that appears to be unavoidable.  The stigma of being an insurgent.  The flour riots are a prime example of how those who were considered insurgents were being sort of led to martyrdom by not just dying for not only food but for their belief in equality.  All of this truly traces back to Manifest Destiny and its ideology of entitlement and power.  But what’s make someone entitled to something?  It seems that almost of these riots whether it’s the flour riots or even the Bread riots, there always seems to have this form of self-interest when it comes down to both the oppressed and the oppressors as well.  It almost makes me wonder what drives someone to say lets start a Riot instead of a peaceful protest, because as history clearly displays itself that no protest ever ends peaceful.