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UNDERSTANDING THE RIOTS--SIX MONTHS LATER : Touched by Fire / A Legacy of Pain and Hope
Six months after the riots, Times reporters visited some of the people and places touched by the extraordinary events of last spring and on these pages we tell their stories.
Art Washington still can’t get over what happened to him in the weeks after the riots--how he, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, became a national hero.
“It’s changed my whole attitude about people,” he says. “Especially white people.
I was real negative about white people because it seemed all my life they were trying to keep me down.”
Washington marched out of obscurity on the second day of the riots.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-19-ss-1080-story.html
Too bad you can’t read the article unless you subscribe. Thanks anyway. The video was heartbreaking.
After I watched that video, I started thinking, and realized, that if Mr. Washington made those comments today, he’d be called an “Uncle Tom”, and be told he’s not black enough.
I recall the Denny’s restaurant head slam menu item. I think Rush referenced it after a truck driver was beat on