55 years after riots, Watts
section of LA still bears scars
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/10/2020 2:21:40 PM
Los Angeles—There were no fires this time in Watts. There was no looting, no shooting and no National Guard troops patrolling. Protesters filled the streets around the country in late May and June following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, demanding an end to police brutality.(Snip)
“People have learned from the history to say we’re not going to burn our community,” said state Assemblyman Mike Gipson, who was born in Watts a year after the turmoil. “We realize our community is not going to be built again.” Watts has changed from an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s to one
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/10/2020 2:23:53 PM (No. 505472)
Suffer the consequences of your actions and then blame someone else cuz youdindonuffinrong.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2020 2:26:25 PM (No. 505477)
Targeted in the LA riot were the Korean-owned businesses that ironically provided much of the low-cost foods and other provisions the blacks needed. The Koreans decamped. Abandoned the area. That gave Moochelle the “food dessert” that she decried out of a warehouse of ignorance.
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They’re only 1 out of 8 of Americans
And 3 out of 4 are illegitimate births
73% bastid children in LA NY Chi Et al...
They’re too busy procreating little gangbangers
Statistics and facts matter
Not black lies
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 8/10/2020 2:39:56 PM (No. 505492)
This is terribly sad. So many systemic problems in this community.
This author refuses to hold any person in this community accountable for any of the problems.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Namma 8/10/2020 2:57:45 PM (No. 505515)
Detroit riots left a huge mark on that city.
It’s too bad but somethings cannot be fixed. All of these riots are uncalled for. LA, Detroit, and the Minneapolis riots were all based on lies, and media fake news Not my problem to fix what they broke.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
czechlist 8/10/2020 3:05:47 PM (No. 505520)
I've seen it so many times - "food desert"
City asks a grocery chain to locate a store in a black area and guarantees a taxpayer funded profit. Within a year, two at most, the store is abandoned.
It is culture, not racism.
I worked with a black guy from Cameroon who hated American blacks. "They call themselves African American but they would not last a week in Africa! ". Racist?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lftrn97 8/10/2020 3:13:35 PM (No. 505531)
#3...brillint--Black Lies Matter
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
OhioNick 8/10/2020 3:29:20 PM (No. 505552)
#6
There's a lot of hostility between first-generation Africans in this country and so-called African Americans. Before the newspaper went completely Marxist, the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article on the subject. Here's the one important thing I remember from the article: an African-American angrily said to the African, "Go back to Africa." And then the African said to the African-American, "Go back to your Section-8 housing."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/10/2020 3:37:04 PM (No. 505560)
Democrat cities should burn to the ground.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/10/2020 3:37:09 PM (No. 505561)
Ultimately it's the insurance market that will ultimately determine whether businesses and individuals will be able to build and develop in the areas where riots and looting takes place.
After all, they are in the risk business, and know whether a particular area is more high-risk than other areas based on a variety of statistics.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2020 3:39:29 PM (No. 505564)
A totally dysfunctional culture, and they blame all their problems on 'whitey'.....and ignore the idiot in the mirror who is the real problem.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 8/10/2020 3:43:59 PM (No. 505572)
Watts, Detroit, Newark, North Philly.....they all bear scars.
There was the small but important blossoming of black middle-class in these cities. Detroit through the automotive industry, Watts had the military and aerospace assembly plants close by, and Newark had docks and dockworkers; but the radicals burnt out the people, and the infrastructure supporting those people. Very sad.
It's almost as if there's a sub-group that doesn't want others to grow and prosper.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/10/2020 3:49:35 PM (No. 505576)
Let's add 53 years after Newark and Detroit. You do not want to see the once clean and shiny downtown sedtion of Newark that had several department sores and men's and women's stores and jewelry shops. Now one can buy sneakers anywhere if you get my drift.
The latest additions are Minneapolis, Portland, Baltimore, Seattle, and Chicago. Philadelphia is getting there. Money was not given to Detroit and Newark and you see the results. If these other cities want to rebuild with tax payer money, President Trump has to make it a requirement that all Democrats resign from leadership roles and that they be replaced with Republican business men to run things and oversee the spending. You cannot put Democrats, and especially liberal Democrat women in charge. They treat these offices like trophies, and the men look at them as a money machine.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lazlototh 8/10/2020 3:54:50 PM (No. 505579)
Newark and Detroit never came back AT ALL. Watts didn't die completely ONLY because it was in the middle of a fast-growing area for at least 40 of the last 55 years. I suspect that a big part of Minneapolis will be being written about in a couple of decades the way Detroit and Newark are described. I feel badly for the majority of people there whom I know are decent. I don't feel badly for the city itself since it elected the idiots who not only did nothing but have made the situation worse since then.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Luke21 8/10/2020 4:16:14 PM (No. 505589)
This is typical Asspress drivel.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BooneBoy 8/10/2020 4:48:25 PM (No. 505614)
I was a first-year teacher from the mid-west. Moved the family to LA in September 1966. The school year was to start in two weeks and I was assigned to a Junior High in Watts; part of which had been burnt down. They sent me to a warehouse to pick my 7th and 9th-grade world history books, but they only had 5 to 10 of the same book; so I had multiple books for my classes. Only after classes began did I discover that most of the kids could only read at the 3rd or 5th-grade level. Martin Luther King was in LA and I asked the kids if they had watched him on TV, and they wanted to know who he was. I was instructed not to fail any student because they would just grow taller and stronger and dominate the younger kids. You could only arrive and depart the school 30 minutes before or after the school day. There were about 30 kids to a class, and only about 6 wanted to learn something while the rest disrupted the class. The detention hall was filled up for the semester after the 2nd week of school, so you could not keep any disruptive kids after school. If a student attacked you they would be transferred to another school. The experienced teachers told me to sit back and let the kids do whatever they wanted and just collect my paycheck. I quit after one month. I imagine the schools in Watts are still run the same way. If the basketball, football, baseball players want to help the black community, then they should transform Watts into an economic-academic growth zone. They should spend all their free time in Watts and show us how it is done, then move on to another "Watts" in another city. Amen
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/10/2020 5:20:59 PM (No. 505631)
Check out many of the cities of antiquity. They are gone and will never return.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Debaser 8/10/2020 5:52:21 PM (No. 505647)
No sane business would (re)build there.
No sane insurer would issue a policy there (w/out charging "appropriate" premium).
It's a self-inflicted financial head shot.
Nobody cares.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 8/10/2020 6:12:56 PM (No. 505669)
Prior to August 9, 2014, Ferguson, Missouri was a quiet, peaceful place with no race problems. It will probably take at least few decades before Ferguson can recover financially from the Michael Brown shooting and the fake claim of "hands up, don't shoot." The harm to Ferguson was increased by Obama sending the Department of Justice to investigate Ferguson's Police Department for no valid reason.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
OK state mom 8/10/2020 6:49:08 PM (No. 505697)
Late in my career I worked with an orthopedic surgeon who did his residency in LA during the Watts Riots. He said it was an absolute war zone.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/10/2020 6:55:23 PM (No. 505702)
So that means the 20 year old arsonists and looters are now 75 ? Hope they like their property values. Oh, wait, They don't have property. That must suck. Hope they like their running shoes. They didn't have I phones back then.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 8/10/2020 11:20:18 PM (No. 505842)
I had a family member , a fire dept emt. He'd call me just to vent. They had to fight fires and rescue people under cover of police. The rioters would shoot at them when they were trying to do their work - work that benefited the people. We have been at this for over 50 years. Neither side has learned much. They are still rioting and we still don't know how to shut it down. Well, we do know, we just elect spineless, do nothings that are just taking care of #1. Vote President Trump and KAG
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 8/11/2020 2:23:10 AM (No. 505894)
There is an excellent video online about the buildings burned down in Minneapolis and St Paul. They are now holes in the ground or boarded up brick buildings! They won’t be rebuilt in the next 55 years guaranteed!
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A racist blacque state assemblyman makes the unwitting admission that bLACK people are incapable of rebuilding the neighborhood they destroyed 55 years ago, to the point where they've been displaced by The Latinx Community, moving them that much farther down the ladder. He also admits that bLACK rioters specifically targeted WHITE-owned businesses, perhaps because there's nothing of value to destroy in the community he represents.