you could look at the work of a scholar named joe figgagan frome 1960s. even the commission reported itself, don't put much stock in the influence of agitators. of black militants. that's not who people said influenced them to do what they did. but i think that that argument is important. it's important to think about, because it shows the divided way that people thought about this violence and the divided way that people thought about the issues, the social issues that were at the center of it. to use a shorthand term, african-americans in cities, or, you know, people of particular leftist political ideas, radicals or activists, they said that these disorders were caused by discrimination and police brutality, really. in all of the instances that i gave you as examples, all of it involved an altercation with police officers. so there's something going on about the relationship between urban black people and police officers that is at the center of this issue. that's one way that people interpreted the violence. and in another way was, it has nothing to d