April 29, 1992 - Thoughts?

[CalebHayes]

(on edit some of us don't seem to be able to recall what happened on this day in histroy... so I'm adding some song lyrics to try to help you out.)






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(I don't know if you can, but can you get an order for Ons, that's O-N-S,
Junior Market, the address is 1934 East Anaheim, all the windows are
busted out, and it's like a free-for-all in here and uh the owner should
at least come down here and see if he can secure his business, if he wants to...)

April 26th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was the liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
(Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal)
When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
It's getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year
Some kids went in a store with their mother
I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the mexican
But not for the white man
But if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney King
It's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police
It's about comin' up and stayin' on top
And screamin' 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin' cop
It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around

(Any unit, any unit...)
(Homicide, never doing no time)

Give me my share, my share.
Gimme my share, I want it.
Gimme my share, I need it now, I need it now.
My share.
A wicked one who doesn't wanna see me go.
Just gimme my share, I want it. Gimme my share.
But you don't want to give it to me,
you don't wanna see me go.
Gimme my share, I want it, Gimme my share.
But there is a wicked one.

(Units be advised of an attempt 211 to arrest now at 938 Temple, 9-3-8
Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB's
house...they're trying to kill him)

[JohnKleeb]

1. Damn glasses, hated them ha

:banghead:

[hfojvt]

2. almost my niece's birthday

she was born 30 Apr 1991. Otherwise, I do not get it.

[CalebHayes]

3. This is kinda sad

[UrbScotty]

5. I think that's when the Rodney King riots began. (nt)

[CalebHayes]

7. yes

[Stirk]

4. I assume you're talking about the LA riots.

I live in LA and I had to look up the date. I don't remember things by date like that.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Is it when ...

Brad and Jen met for the first time? Michael Jackson released what album? Grunge came out. Uhhhh. Liz Taylor?

[candy]

8. Wonderful lyrics----Cole Porter?

[BeFree]

9. Those were some awful days

And, come to think of it, it was at the end of 12 long years of Republican rule in America. I guess it takes 12 years or so to get folks mad enough to riot? And we are only half way there, now.

[CalebHayes]

11. The idea of the song is to but you in the middle of the riot....

unfortantly the guy who wrote the song OD'd before that album even came out.

RIP - Brad from Sublime

[Henny Penny]

10. I would have had no idea of the date...

but I definitely remember the incident. I don't think I used the internet much back then, but it was all over the tv news. As was the coverage of the court case afterwards, and how the bastards got off after the case was moved to some white area.

Riots are always a terrible event, but you can understand the anger that led to them. Even people this far away were outraged at what happened.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[CalebHayes]

12. I'm wondering if DU thinks it was justified though?

I do. It did get out of hand but there is always a time make it known that you won't take crap like that anymore.

[Henny Penny]

16. I think it was justified in this case.

I don't remember if anyone died or was seriously hurt in the riots (I hope not) but in such a case I think civil disobedience is justified, including rioting.

[solinvictus]

17. I think about 50-75 people were killed in LA.

I may be mistaken.
Edit: Wikipedia says between 50-60 people were killed and $800-1 billion in property damage.

[Henny Penny]

18. wow, that is a lot.

Here when riots happened, the casualties were almost all caused by the police or army. Do you know who died and why?

[solinvictus]

13. It was enough to make me ride with a shotgun on my lap..

Seriously, here in Birmingham, there were a few ripple riots, mostly burned dumpsters and such, but it was happening near work. I sure as hell didn't want to be the next Reginald Denny, so I had a 16 gauge shotgun on my lap in the car.

[CalebHayes]

14. But was it justified to have the riots?

Is that what it takes to make the country (white people) listen? Maybe thats the only way they could get through to people?

[solinvictus]

15. I don't know..

I know many innocent people; black, hispanic, asian, and white, suffered at the hands of mobs. MTV, of all things, did a ten year follow up on the areas of South Central LA hit hardest and guess what? The majority of areas that burned down are now vacant lots because businesses won't come back. I haven't walked in their shoes, so it's hard for me to judge their anger. At the same time, though, you can not complain about a lack of jobs, businesses, and opportunities after destroying your own neighborhood.

[Henny Penny]

19. if the police thought

they could behave the way they did, then there was something very wrong with the neighbourhood already.

[Sparkle]

20. Why did you have to bring that up?

I felt pain just by watching the video at the time.:mad: