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The stories that stick out in my mind about that awful time:

Some kids from a Simi Valley school went on a field trip to Los Angeles. Their bus said "Simi Valley" on the side. The bus was pelted with rocks, etc., thrown by angry blacks convinced that everyone in Simi Valley was "racist." Never mind the fact that the bus contained innocent schoolchildren.

A newspaper article about a bunch of white people watching the riots on a TV in a bar. "Look, they're burning down their own community," the white people were saying. The writer wrote about how awful it was of these insensitive white people to refer to the rioters as "they."

News reports showing rioters and looters with news anchors' voices over saying, "Look what we have done. Look what we have driven these poor people to do. We should be ashamed!"

The fact that many of the rioters had no idea who Rodney King even was. One rioter was interviewed and asked what he thought of Rodney King. He replied, "I don't follow sports."

Of course my very favorite story is the one Charlton Heston used to tell, about his liberal Hollywood friends, (who had pushed for five-day waiting periods before buying a gun.) These libs called Heston on the phone and begged him to loan them some guns so they could protect their property from rioters. "Why don't you buy your own guns?" Heston asked them innocently. Well...er...there was the little matter of the five-day waiting period!!

Yes. Those were "interesting" times.