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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