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...black rage was directed at the police force. Many rioters specifically targeted Asian-owned businesses. Relations between the black and Asian communities have been tense for years, mainly because of a perception that Korean merchants have been exploiting poor neighborhoods by establishing shops in ghetto areas while refusing to hire blacks to work in them. A particularly bitter episode occurred last year when grocer Soon Ja Du was convicted of killing 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, whom she accused of stealing a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. Although an in-store video camera clearly showed that Du had shot Harlins...
Blacks have far more than police brutality to worry about: high unemployment, widespread poverty, poor schools, drug peddlers and criminals who prey on their neighborhoods. But it is no accident that nearly all the great ghetto riots since the 1960s have been triggered by some incident involving arrested blacks and white cops. To an extent that whites can barely even imagine -- because it so rarely happens to them -- police brutality to many blacks is an ever present threat to their bodies and lives...
Worse, the riots demonstrated again the existence of a group of mostly young, impoverished and angry ghetto blacks who no longer listen to the established African-American leadership -- or to anybody. "There is a major communication gap between our so-called leaders and these people who have taken to the streets," says Johnnie Cochran, one of the most prominent lawyers in Los Angeles. People leaving the protest rally at the First A.M.E. Church on Wednesday night, he relates, were confronted by rioters who told them, "Nothing you're talking about is going to do any good -- so come with...
...electing African Americans has not calmed ghetto rage...
...self-images create. To have and have not is relative. Last year's movie Boyz N the Hood was set in the same South Central Los Angeles that was burning in last week's riots. The characters, the boyz, were supposed to represent the dead-end hopelessness of black ghetto males. And they did. They also lived in relatively pleasant homes and drove customized cars and watched enormous color TV sets in a life-style that most of the residents of Kinshasa or Cairo would consider upper-middle class -- nearly luxurious. An objective, literal-minded Marxist might wonder what...