Where any of you around when Martin Luther King Jr. was Asassinated(sp)? Did black people riot because of his untimely death? I don't think they did because if there was a riot it would've been major and went down in history...i'm 21 yrs. old so i'm not too sure because i wasn't around back then. What brought this to my attention was the latest episode of the Boondocks...it got me thinking that it would fucked up if black people started to riot because a nigga like Rodney King got beat up by cops and did nothing for Dr. King. Who the fuck is Rodney King! He didn't do shit for us...i just realized that it's ironic that both of their last names are King
For the older heads from the US or to whoever might know
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I remember the Rodney King riots. But obviously not MLK's assassination. I was in the UK, and young. So I was taken in by the media. I remember thinking the evil white cops were bastards. And the rioting will teach them for picking on an innocent black man.
Then as I got older my perception of the incident changed. Now I still think the cops are shit, but I think King is a piece of shit too.
Then as I got older my perception of the incident changed. Now I still think the cops are shit, but I think King is a piece of shit too.
We??? We as in whom???
BTW rioting doesn't solve anything, it didn't then, and it doesn't now, just makes those who are rioting look like ignorant jackasses who were looking for an excuse to break the law in the first damn place. I"m sure MLK wouldn't have wanted people to riot because of his death, he's rather have them all go sign up for college and do something positive with their lives.
Wasnt it sort of calm after MLK's death but it was really on the edge then Malcolm got murdered and thats when everyone lost it? Rioting doesnt solve anything, but I guess when something is eating away at your patience and something like the greatest hope for change gets shot your likely going to do something stupid.
i have to disagree about rioting not solving/helping anything...
i agree it didnt solve anything on its own.. just like the peaceful protest didnt... we (blacks) where getting are asses kicked during those if you didnt notice... we was getting out asses kicked for 400yrs before we fought back
so i highly dissagree that they dont work.. alot of people get hurt and alot of bullshyt happens after it but rioting did work during the civil rights movement
the rioting during the rodney king trial is something for los angeles ppl to understand... police brutality and corruption. the initial riot was understandable but maybe not needed in that day and age but the aftermath was clearly not needed
i agree it didnt solve anything on its own.. just like the peaceful protest didnt... we (blacks) where getting are asses kicked during those if you didnt notice... we was getting out asses kicked for 400yrs before we fought back
so i highly dissagree that they dont work.. alot of people get hurt and alot of bullshyt happens after it but rioting did work during the civil rights movement
the rioting during the rodney king trial is something for los angeles ppl to understand... police brutality and corruption. the initial riot was understandable but maybe not needed in that day and age but the aftermath was clearly not needed
Riots can be effective in that they can bring an issue to light and show how angered by something people are. However, when the issue at hand is black people being treated as second-class citizens, congregating in a violent mob and committing crimes doesn't exactly further the cause. The message there is "give us civil rights or we'll riot" rather than "gives us civil rights because we deserve them". Nobody's going to think "Gee, maybe those angry niggers trashing my city do deserve the same rights as me".
i find it funny that no one had a problem with us when peaceful protest where going on as long as we stayed in our place as "negros"... back in the 1800's on up to the 60's...we as a race didnt gain any ground... from the civil war on up.. nothing changed.. but as soon as some "niggas" want to finally stand up and fight back... thats when people finally took notice that something was really wrong here...
even during the peaceful protest you saw fightin... people gettin ripped to shreds by dogs.. and this was just 40 yrs ago...
theres no such thing as peace when your fighting for freedom... its going on in the middle east right now
even during the peaceful protest you saw fightin... people gettin ripped to shreds by dogs.. and this was just 40 yrs ago...
theres no such thing as peace when your fighting for freedom... its going on in the middle east right now