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To: haqihana who wrote (113900)	5/15/2005 5:24:34 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

LB, I doubt that there were very many hispanics that joined in the Watts riots. I watched it on TV. There were thousands of Mexicans walking out of stores with loot, while the police stood by. I was really struck by them. They weren't burning stores or hurting people, just looting.

To: haqihana who wrote (113900)	5/15/2005 6:45:55 PM
From: Whitebeard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

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.