"Revisiting South Los Angeles, 20 years after deadly race riot" by Amy Taxin and John Rogers |
Associated Press, April 29, 2012
LOS ANGELES -A day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most
destructive race riots in the nation’s history....
Rioting spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs.
Almost a quarter century had passed since the tumultuous urban riots of
1968, and even longer since LA’s Watts rioting in 1965. The magnitude of
this new racial paroxysm shocked a nation that thought it had moved on....
While racial tensions fanned by the verdict and distrust of
police among LA’s black population have moderated, residents of the
city’s largely black and Hispanic South Side complain that the area is
still plagued by too few jobs, too few grocery stores, and a lack of
redevelopment....
“Have things changed? Not really. People are just more mellow these
days,’’ Frank Owens says....
Prescription drugs in the water?
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I had intended to post a bunch of recent Globe items with racial overtones; however, I'm finding that I'm lacking the time so fuck it. I don't want to play the race game anymore when we are all being set at each others throats by the very controllers that are screwing us all no matter our differences.
