Was I Wrong About The Rodney King Riots?

Steve Sailer

05/01/2012

Last week in The Secret History of the 1990s, I suggested that the 1992 Los Angeles riots served as a shameful wake-up call to blacks at the nadir of the crack / gangsta rap era to check themselves before they wreck themselves, and that the relative improvement in black performance in the later 1990s may date from that turning point.

A number of commenters demurred, pointing out, among other objections, that I hadn’t produced a lot of quotes suggesting that African-Americans had actually been ashamed of how significant numbers of their younger people had behaved during those three days two decades ago.

So, I did a Google search on

ashamed 1992 riots south central

and came up with … not much.

A Korean academic claims, "I was embarrassed and ashamed, because many Koreans had established a negative image among the media and the African Americans. "

"US policeman looks back on LA riots with shame."

That kind of thing …

This isn’t to say that black private individuals didn’t feel ashamed by the riots, but it sure isn’t part of The Narrative.

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