As obvious as this sounds, being racist can lead you to violence and can only teach
to hate a different group of people. Riot(the drama) basically is an issue for the black
community, But not just for the black community, it's also an issue for anyone who
struggles with their identity and where they come from. To my understanding, this drama
is performed to show people of Canada that the black community is not full of criminals;
they just have been neglected by people. The Riot's ending has answers for all those
people who think that the black community is violent and full of criminals. The ending
has so many positive features. In the end, the character Alex got injured in a riot on
Yonge Street, but still says that "it is not a riot. It is definitely a melee". Actually he was
only trying to send a message to his peers and people who were watching this show that
people always make a big deal out of little things. Later on page 83 he says that the
crowd was mixed, so it means it was not only a group of black people, there were some
other groups of people involved too in that riot. He also says that "it was sort of scary,
but it was still kind of Canadian, it's like, there was violence, but it was still kinda polite
Violence" (83). These words of Alex prove that the Canada is not a racist country. I think
Alex was saying that people try to connect all these riots to the issue of racism and from
there it leads to so many problems in our community. To me the ending of Alex's role
leaves a very positive sense of thinking about the whole matter of Riot.
Kirk's role itself has a very positive ending, not in a sense of what he did, but only if we
think that the problem is just not with his race, it is just the way he is. He is a criminal
minded guy and it has got nothing to do with his race
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