hmm rolling blackouts in LA, FR post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1470840/posts
Hope all is well down there, looks like you took a good hit from a strengthening landfalling cane. I hear 2 deaths have occurred already.
There's history and then there's history rewritten....
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THE WATTS RIOTS...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1470783/posts
"The Watts Riots, Burned Into Memory -- Roger Wilkins replies (or tries) to John McWhorter"
Washington Post ^ | August 23, 2005 | Roger Wilkins
Posted on 08/25/2005 2:56:18 PM PDT by nicollo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463238/posts
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"Burned, Baby, Burned: Watts and the Tragedy of Black America (John McWhorter!)"
Washington Post ^ | John McWhorter | John McWhorter
Posted on 08/14/2005 12:19:33 PM PDT by nicollo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461306/posts
"Watts Riots, 40 Years Later"
Yahoo ^ | 8/11/05 | By Valerie Reitman and Mitchell Landsberg
Posted on 08/11/2005 8:34:05 AM PDT by Borges
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The divisions are still there, 40 years later.
To many, the events that began in Watts on Aug. 11, 1965, remain a riot, pure and simple — a social breakdown into mob rule and criminality."