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Old 08-10-2011, 11:26 AM  
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
it's nothing at all like Rodney King, but it is awfully sweet that you try and join in

Rodney King was a race riot sparked by one lone incident. A gang of police viciously beating a black man.

The problems here start 30 years ago with the Brixton Riots. The problems that caused them were never addressed. And now, it's happened again. The poor give birth in poverty and single parents with little or no education raise kids with little or no education in areas rife with crime, drugs and violence. The kids think they have no hope, no future and no point in doing what the society that has failed them so badly tells them to do.

They are disenfranchised.

And now, they had enough.
Yeah, sounds totally different. Life was peachy keen in South Central L.A. from the end of the Watts riots (1965), to the start of the 1992 Los Angeles riots almost 30 years later. The only reason folks went out beating, burning, killing and looting there, was anger over a single case of police brutality.
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