Thursday 9/18/14 Rodney King Riots

On Thursday we discussed the riots which happened after the Rodney King trial. Started watching a video about the Hip Hop during that time and how the riots affected it. We also listened to people who were apart of the riots tell their story. In class we had a really good conversation which got a tad heated but it was really interesting. We saw how many African Americans spoke up about how they hated the police and how they acted on it. A song which came out around this time which was called F**K THE POLICE was a angry song that was speaking about how the LAPD is a very unfair to African Americans and how they don't ask, they just attack. We saw that Blacks were attacking white people who went through the wrong neighborhoods at the wrong time. Because the white officers beat up King, Blacks were now beating up any white person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In class we talked about the irony behind this idea.