Post by erik on Apr 29, 2012 13:37:30 GMT -5
Quote by philosopher George Santayana:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Those of us who lived in Southern California will not forget April 29, 1992. On that day, four white L.A.P.D. officers were acquitted by a largely all-White criminal jury in a courtroom in largely all-White Simi Valley (in Ventura County) for the savage beating of black motorist Rodney King on March 3, 1991. What resulted on that day, and over the next five, was horror that eclipsed even what had been seen in 1965. It pointed out that, while a lot of progress had been made since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, some things, at least in L.A. but probably across America at large, were still at a standstill, and, thanks to the indifference of the powers-that-be, may have gotten worse.
The following is news footage from those dark days. A lot of it is very disturbing and graphic. But we must never forget it:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Those of us who lived in Southern California will not forget April 29, 1992. On that day, four white L.A.P.D. officers were acquitted by a largely all-White criminal jury in a courtroom in largely all-White Simi Valley (in Ventura County) for the savage beating of black motorist Rodney King on March 3, 1991. What resulted on that day, and over the next five, was horror that eclipsed even what had been seen in 1965. It pointed out that, while a lot of progress had been made since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, some things, at least in L.A. but probably across America at large, were still at a standstill, and, thanks to the indifference of the powers-that-be, may have gotten worse.
The following is news footage from those dark days. A lot of it is very disturbing and graphic. But we must never forget it: