Then, in that case, I’ll say this:
if the riots that happened/are happening in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, regardless of what was destroyed and, more importantly, any innocent lives which were risked in the process in all that destruction, leads to the passage of another Civil Rights Act, or, if the government can’t be trusted to do that much, the implementation of another reform/solution which goes far enough to accomplish a significantly positive change in negating corruption and helping black people everywhere happens, then, ok then...
Ok then I’ll say, it will be at that point that I’ll change my ways of thinking how I view riots, despite how life-threatening they can get, and admit that riots are more necessary than I had been taught and thought, even if they’re called a necessary evil, in getting society to change for the better, with the understanding of otherwise condemning riots only when it goes hand in hand with condemning intolerable conditions the unheard are going through, like how MLK was touching on.
I’m prepared to view riots more as necessary if it leads to more significant reforms that will negate aspects such as "Southern Strategy", "Jim Crow Laws" and African-American voter suppression, like you were mentioning and also mentioned that it was riots that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. I’m sure I’ll view riots in a better light after that...
but, in the case a significant solution doesn’t come about akin to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which you yourself referred to, or whatever other example or gage you prefer to use when referring to the progress of maintaining the well-being of black people everywhere, ultimately doesn’t end up happening in the aftermath of all the riots, which many seem ready to risk their lives in by the way others I’ve seen talk about it regardless of how dangerous they can get, then...
we’ll, that would be another story, wouldn’t it?