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Were the LA riots an outcome of white supremacy?
Yes.
Why are Black communities segregated in LA? Look at the history of redlining and racial covenants that kept them out of white communities. Asian immigrants were also subject to that.
Why were Korean shopkeepers in Black and https://twitter.com/themyst/status/1360979570036514816
Yes.
Why are Black communities segregated in LA? Look at the history of redlining and racial covenants that kept them out of white communities. Asian immigrants were also subject to that.
Why were Korean shopkeepers in Black and https://twitter.com/themyst/status/1360979570036514816
Brown neighborhoods?
Those were the only economic opportunities many of them could find.
Why were Korean immigrants coming to the USA?
Go back to the Korean War, where the US helped divide the country, instigate the war, bombed the country flat, and committed atrocities
Those were the only economic opportunities many of them could find.
Why were Korean immigrants coming to the USA?
Go back to the Korean War, where the US helped divide the country, instigate the war, bombed the country flat, and committed atrocities
that devastated the country and laid the conditions for Koreans to migrate.
As in the Vietnam War, the USA welcomed people from countries that it bombed and helped to destabilize.
So when you put minority communities in close contact with each other
As in the Vietnam War, the USA welcomed people from countries that it bombed and helped to destabilize.
So when you put minority communities in close contact with each other
in a struggle to survive, are you surprised if they resent each other, the people they see on a daily basis?
Was it white supremacy for the LAPD to cordon the area
Was it white supremacy for the LAPD to cordon the area
so that the violence would not reach the whiter parts of town?
The Korean American community recognized this. In the aftermath, the Korean American community staged a huge march demanding racial and economic justice and calling attention to the city's responsibility.
The Korean American community recognized this. In the aftermath, the Korean American community staged a huge march demanding racial and economic justice and calling attention to the city's responsibility.
This is why blaming an individual perpetrator for violence or for economic exploitation, and posit them as representatives of communities, misses the more crucial issue of how systemic inequality and structural segregation fosters these kinds of acts. A system and a structure
that descends from the origins of this country in colonization, genocide, and slavery.
Does the country's ideals of democracy, freedom, equality, and pluralistic representation allow us to talk about these things? Yes.
But the country is neither just its horror or its hope.
Does the country's ideals of democracy, freedom, equality, and pluralistic representation allow us to talk about these things? Yes.
But the country is neither just its horror or its hope.
It's both. And we have to be able to talk about both and recognize that they exist mutually and simultaneously, then and now.
