Monday, December 12, 2016

Rodney King and race

One thing this Rodney King case exposed is the strategies the LAPD used against the African-Americans. They were containing them in South Central LA, and not to let them out of their neighborhood. I would consider this as segregation, and racially separating blacks from the white neighborhood. We all have different races and it's hard to say someone is not judged by their color of skin, and also we never know what other race experience. So it would be hard for me to understand the true feeling of black people, and it's thoughts on this cowardly policy applied by the LAPD. Yet this policy is unfair considering and infringing the basic rights as a human being. Although it had been nearly 30 years since the Jim Craw Laws were abolished, this policy had the same weight as a legal segregation. As a result blacks were restrained in the area struggling with limited resources and getting less opportunities than white people, and suffering less economically advantages. This resulted the blacks to get out from their less fortunate situation and the LAPD had committed a huge crime.

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