![]() ![]() Living in a small town in the midwest, it actually created a ton of white right wing fear - the smaller black population were harassed quite a bit. Maybe didn't have the headlines or the biggest cultural impact of something like OJ, but everything from Rodney to the aftermath of the riots left a scar. It's too crazy for anybody to make it up. One of the most famous celebrities in America killing his ex wife and going on a police chase followed by the most high profile 'crime of the century' court case, bungled investigation, verdict, and then OJ fucking doing himself in again a few years later. For that reason in retrospect it seems less sudden, crazy, unexpected to me. A leads to B leads to C conflated by D situation. But like when you understand what led to them, it's like such a. ![]() Everything about the LA riots could have been predicted, and it happened, and it made perfect sense why it happened to any sociologist who looked honestly at the situation. Decades of racial disparity between what the wealthiest whitest people got in LA and just the absolute depravity for black, Latin, and undesirable Asian people, like just this total imbalance of societal benefits, coupled then with a police force that treated black and Hispanic neighborhoods like foreign countries and warzones along with police sponsored drug corruption. I think that maybe the LA riots are the most consequential, but, like the situation that led to the LA riots is not crazy, it's totally consequential, like one thing leading to another. I immediately said "OJ" when I read the title. ![]()
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