50 years ago, Watts riots

[Big Dad]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/back-watts-riots-33010906/image-33011169

n this Aug. 12, 1965 file photo, demonstrators push against a police car after rioting erupted in the Watts district of Los Angeles. It began with a routine traffic stop 50 years ago this month, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor and escalated into the deadliest and most destructive riot Los Angeles had seen. The Watts riot broke out Aug. 11, 1965 and raged for most of a week. When the smoke cleared, 34 people were dead, more than a 1,000 were injured and some 600 buildings were damaged.

[Kart21]

Watts changed ?

The people who they is. You owe us whitey. We'll burn down our place and you owe us.

[71chevellejohn]

That's back when people knew how to riot. Nowadays barely anybody dies from US riots.

[soap]

Should've pulled all the whites out and dropped napalm.

[Tremor14]

i thought it was an interesting look into something I have only heard of. But yeah that wasn't right, it never is, black or white.

I can't wait to see how many racists identify themselves with this thread.

[LANTIRN]

Should've pulled all the whites out and dropped napalm.

Aren't you a little dark yourself to be making statements like that?

[Tremor14]

1.

[lincolnboy]

Tria

[CyaNide]

Four, I declare a thumb war.

CN

[svauto-erotic855]

i thought it was an interesting look into something I have only heard of. But yeah that wasn't right, it never is, black or white.

I can't wait to see how many racists identify themselves with this thread.

Do I even need to say anything?

[CyaNide]

Do I even need to say anything?

No, your presence is all that is needed.

CN

[Tremor14]

Do I even need to say anything?

5.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Their fight is for dignity and work. This is the reason that the issue of police brutality looms so high." -- MLK Jr.

[soap]

Aren't you a little dark yourself to be making statements like that?

How'd you figure that? Anyway at lest I don't look like a burnt piece of meat. Or a tire! like those fools. Lol

[71chevellejohn]

You've got a selfie stick... that should be reason enough.