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...each of these characterizations misses the point. Despite their rage at the acquittal of the four policemen charged with beating Rodney King, the vast majority of the people in South Central L.A. did not degenerate into a mob putting the torch to their own neighborhood -- or turn themselves into a revolutionary army. Rather, they watched helplessly as their troubled inner- city area, whose law-abiding residents had been pleading for better police protection for years, was pillaged and set aflame by hordes of looters. By all indications, the rioting could have been contained with proper planning, commitment of resources, leadership...
Inexplicable scenes like this make it impossible to view the L.A. riots solely as an outburst of self-destructive black rage. By one preliminary estimate, more than half the people arrested in the riot were Hispanic and 10% were white. Memories of how long it took inner-city areas to recover from the destruction of the Watts riots are still fresh in the minds of many Los Angeles blacks, who despaired at a repetition of the violence...
...police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage...
...electing African Americans has not calmed ghetto rage...
...beating defenseless blacks. The bottom-feeders' message of the truck-driver video was that blacks are savage, racist animals who would beat a man virtually to death because he is white. On that level of discourse, if Americans choose to stay there, there can only be a gridlock of rage: blacks make demons of whites, whites make demons of blacks...