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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (149398)	8/9/2002 2:55:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579899

<post riot LA was a major revelation for me.> What was the revelation? Seems like the riots themselves should have been a real eye-opener, given that half of the 2,000 businesses trashed were Korean. Tenchusatsu, the revelation was the degree of racial hatred in LA. Prior to the riots, the image presented was of a multi cultural city in which the various races were in relative harmony. While I was not naive enough to believe that as the gospel, rarely did you hear disparaging remarks made against other races nor even racial jokes. So I thought there was some truth to the image. Wrong! Post riots, it was unbelievable the level of racial hatred that had been unveiled. As an example, I went to a daytime studio party with someone I worked with......a Latina who was one of the attorneys in our office.....and someone came up to me and asked me why I had brought my maid. Comments like that became all too common. And they were matched by the threatening stares and actions of black and Latino guys. It was clear that each group saw the other as a threat and the wagons were circled. During the early 1990's, there was a diaspora of 1.5 to 2.0 million people from S. CA. Most of those people were white. After that, I had no delusions about the quality of race relations in this country. ted