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Los Angeles councilman urges commemoration of Watts Riots
Los Angeles Daily News ^ | November 27, 2014 | Rick Orlov

Posted on 11/27/2014 11:50:46 AM PST by EveningStar

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To: Texan5

I read somewhere that the ranchers got their right to water livestock at the river back after the sonafabitch died, but that was an awful lot of years.


21 posted on 11/27/2014 1:00:29 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Organic Panic

Liberals like to celebrate the worst in people. Its what they do.


22 posted on 11/27/2014 1:18:12 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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Here is the commerative statue to the rioters...


23 posted on 11/27/2014 2:18:39 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: EveningStar

Although it has been nearly 50 years, Watts has never recovered from the riot. East 103rd Street was once the community’s business district, but when I visited there some years ago, there were few businesses but many vacant lots where businesses stood before the riot. It probably hasn’t changed much since.


24 posted on 11/27/2014 7:42:47 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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Newark NJ is the same way; areas have never been rebuilt, and the population never recovered to pre-riot levels. Most cities shamefully try to sweep these riots under the rug, since they were the death knells of those areas; this is a bad move for LA.

While they might think they can re-stoke white guilt (as another FReeper pointed out), they also run the risk of having blacks realize they’ve only fallen further behind in the last 50 years (and successive waves of foreigners imported by the city have left them in the dust).


25 posted on 11/28/2014 6:58:54 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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