Sunday, September 25, 2016

When we first started unwrapping the LA Riots of '92, I could not understand how hundreds of people could riot for several days because of the Rodney King incident. It was more than a riot, it was a rampage, people were beating each other, burning buildings down, looting, and murder. They were destroying their own neighborhood, and harming their own neighbors simply because they were not black. How could there be so much hate because of of one incident? But, once we started digging deeper into the riots, we learned that the Rodney King incident was just one of MANY. Their community had been treated like this for so long, that they all just broke. I find it really sad that they had so much anger built up in themselves for so long, and that when they broke, it just spiraled out of control. That their idea of peace turned out to be just the opposite.

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