As I followed the accounts of the British rioting on the BBC, The Guardian and other media, I was struck by how it resembled what we saw in Los Angeles—looting, arson, random attacks on people and buildings burning, often without police or firefighters in sight. We also saw ethnic minorities—mainly African-Americans and Korean-Americans—locked in combat in a city where “minorities” constitute the majority of the population.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
A Riot, A Riot, A Riot Of Our Own
Bill Boyarsky on "It can happen here (again)."
7 comments:
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Didn't you catch the link to 92 before this guy? I know I did!
ReplyDeleteI thought the Tea Party town halls of last summer were our true 'Murkan riots.
ReplyDeleteCaught Napping Editor:
ReplyDeleteYeah, we've even noted it ourself, but we have a certain respect for Boyarsky as an old hand in local journalism.
And we're too whatever to crank out much more than a paragraph or two about anything.
C'mon, youse NYers haven't had much fun since those War of Northern Aggression draft riots. We know from riots on the Coast.
Oh fuck yeah we Cali folks know riots..especially us southern residents. Right Mr.B? ;-) I am a native Californian and damn proud of it as most Cali residents were born somewhere's else and migrated here via their parents or after they got bounced from school. Just look at the porn industry as an example.
ReplyDeleteNative Son Of The Golden West Proclaims:
ReplyDeleteDamn straight! Born in S.F. (Not San Fernando, the one up north.) lived ratcheer in Kali 'cept for a few yrs. in the state of Wash. (Seattle & Walla Walla) 15 mos. in Paris, & a few mos. in Rockville Centre, NY & Houston, TX. (Parental Units weren't Calif. natives, 'though.)
L.A. Native since '73!
The Coast is the most because the surfing & rioting are the best!
LOL..you kill me Mr. B. What is the M stand for if I may be so bold to inquire?That way I can drop the formality of Mr.
ReplyDeleteFrenchie Editor:
ReplyDeleteEither Monsieur (pretty much the same as "mister") or Malignant.