Overt racism? Who am I being racist too by saying it made no sense to loot Korean stores over some punk like King?
Why don't you show some balls for once and answer the points? Justify that, try it.
Frankly I don't find much value or point in talking to you. Your racism is obvious sir, and your comments are unlearned and uneducated.
However, I'll play and offer my perspective on the LA Riots, although I'm not going to spend much time talking to a racist, which you undoubtedly are.
Your suggestion that police brutality in LA was not a problem before King was stupid to the nth degree. LA had gained an infamous reputation for police brutality, a brutality that quite often took the lives of innocent people, even children. Seemingly, nothing worked to abate this terrorism that innocent people had to live with everyday. I lived in LA for a while so I know exactly what I'm talking about.
The LA Riots was the inevitable consequence of racism in American society, no differently than was the Detroit Riots, or the unrest of the 60's. That is something you do not have the capacity to internalize or understand, racism has consequences. Everyone in LA, including the Korean shop owner were victims of the consequences of having a racist police force, a truth that has been validated by various independent panels and oversight.
Unfortunately, people who are not themselves victims of oppression don't act to stop it until the oppressed rise up in anger. Although Dr. King is attributed with much of the success of the Civil Rights era, in truth, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Black Panthers, and many others who took a militant and aggressive stand against racism equally played a significant role in that success. America awakened to the consequence of racism.
I don't expect you to understand any of this because you don't have th capacity to do so .. but there is a truth that I learned long ago .. racism is a mechanism for those who themselves feel inferior, like you for instance. It is only needed to keep other people down because the racist doesn't feel they can compete in an open society.
Let me give you the sports analogy, something you might have the capacity to interpret. Racism kept blacks out of sports, not because whites were superior, but because racists didn't feel they could compete with them. They told fools like you of their glorious god-given superiority, but a guy named Jesse Owens had a different story to tell and he told it to Hitler and all the idiots who believed that there was such a thing as racial superiority.
Do you know what THE most important sporting event in American history was? .. It was the 1966 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship between an all-white Kentucky team coached by Adolph Rupp and a little known all-black Texas-Westen team. Kentucky was favored by a huge margin .. but then the reality set in and Texas Western ran all over Kentucky handing them an embarrassing defeat. At the time, there was an unwriiten rule that major colleges shoudn't have more than one or possibly two black players on the floor at any time. After the humilating defeat of Kentucky, schools like Nevada-Las Vegas, Louisville, Detroit, and many other schools started to not only recruit black athletes, but put black or nearly all-black players on the floor and it made their coaches famous and brought the schools titles and championships. That dynamic soon trickled over into all sports .. with the exception of the holy position of quarterback.
I'd explain that dynamic, quarterback, and how it relates to Vick, but I don't want to spend anymore time than necessary talking to you.
Suffice it to say that I understand your FEAR and dementia, even if you don't. As in sports, it wasn't that blacks weren't equally capable athletes, it was the fear that they might be better than racist people like you that kept them out of the game. Once the door was KICKED open we've excelled at every facet of sports .. which is also true of the greater society.
You don't like me because I kick your ass intellectually. It's hard to maintain your false belief that there is anything special about you while I put the cyber-boot up your uneducated ass.
Don't get it twisted, there ain't nothing special about me either. I'm just people, comfortable around other people who can interact with other people who are not concerned about any inferiority among any of us.
You sir, do not have that capacity, but then again, that understanding requires intelligence and spirituality .. qualities that you have yet to demonstrate.
Rights are determined by what you can demand .. if you cannot demand them, they are not your rights. Such is life.
Hope that clears it up ... my brother.
