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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: haqihana who wrote (113900)5/15/2005 6:45:55 PM
From: Whitebeard  Read Replies (1) of 793964
 
No hispanics in the Watts riots. Too few of them compared to blacks. Reverse is true now, part of an on-going, decades long process.

Don't remember Arabs in the Rodney King riots. Persians in LA were the largest ME group then. And perhaps still. The initial group was well educated and wealthy, fleeing the fall of the Shah.

And you're totally right about the Koreans in the last riot. They had AR-15's, and nobody said peep, least of all the police.

They were forced to defend themselves because the police were ordered not to stop the riots. Only prevent them from spreading outside of specific geographic areas.

Little or no discussion of that at the time either.
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