Those who like violence, those who prefer cathartic rage, love to lift out King’s words about riots: “riots are the voice of the unheard.” But a more careful and correct understanding of what he said shows that he was merely explaining riots, not condoning them.I know when I hear a cancer researcher describing the abilities of cancer cells to outcompete healthy cells in some situations I do not hear that explanation as the researcher cheering on cancer, but instead hear her explaining it--being able to understand it is how researchers learn to defeat some forms of cancer.This is what Dr.