Wednesday, March 6, 2019
1992
Before seeing this documentary I knew very little about the riots in L.A.. The only thing that I can really recall is the Sublime song that talks about raiding the streets after police brutality on Rodney King. With this being said, I have found this documentary to be very powerful and informative so far. The scene of Rodney King getting beat up is very graphic but I feel that it is necessary for students to view this because it betters our understanding of why the riots happened in 1992. This really reminded me of If He Hollers Let Him Go because of the mistreatment of citizens due to racial discrimination. It is pretty sad to think that our nation and court systems did not provide justice in 1992. With that being said, even though we have a lot of progress to make, I feel that if something like this happened in today's society there would be justice given.
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Greg, I also found the documentary to be surprising and informative to say the least. The connection you made to If He Hollers definitely holds water regarding the discrimination in LA at the time of the riots and in post world war 2 america. It's also interesting that you drew the conclusion that justice would be served in today's times and I would have to agree with you. The public eye is ever expanding, so everyone would know about in through the internet and the public would light a fire under the Supreme Courts ass if this happened today.
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