L.A. Riots Essay

Social movements emerge for a number of different reasons, specifically for gangs it is injustice and inequality: police brutality, racial discrimination, colorism, and poverty, due to a lack of education and school funding because of corrupt politicians. Gangs of America were born out of police brutality and low income areas, which tend to be segregated from other communities of wealth. Not only are their interactions with law enforcement negative, but they have a “dog eat dog” mentality with each

back in that time period but it is disrespectful if you are of a different race (black). In the case of Rodney king, I believe that justice was not served, because 4 officers viciously assaulted King with their night sticks after a car chase in L.A. out of the three men that were caught that night, the police claimed that king was the most “aggressive out of the three men. They also claimed that the force they used on king was “justified”. If you look at the video (recorded by George Holliday)

LAPD officers was caught on video” (Moore). From then on, many rappers and other began to vocalize such actions that occurred. “With acts of police brutality caught on video, protesters chanting “fuck the police,” and riots in the streets, it is starting to feel like early ’90s L.A. all over again” (Moore). “Fuck Tha Police” is a strong political song that was history in the making, and still is just as relevant today as it was in

After the L.A. Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial, the atmosphere of Los Angeles was unsettling at best. Many teens dreaded the first day of high school for many varying reasons. The integrated students knew they were labeled by their fellow students and teachers because of their low test scores and frequent visits to juvenile hall. It was just assumed that these teens were “unteachable” and “delinquents”. Erin Gruwell, a first time teacher, looked forward to teaching at an integrated school. She

Straight Outta Compton and House Party show two different perspectives of the black community but both sides face similar discrimination. House Party showcases predominately affluent African Americans as seen through Fraternity Galas and elegant houses/neighborhoods, whereas Straight Outta Compton displays the urban side of the black community seen through the projects, dope running, and gang affiliation. However, both factions of the African American community face similar discrimination through

Western communities were experiencing a large influx of Black Americans for the first time, and they arrived as part of a vast shift of the general population. Eight million Americans moved west in 1940, half of them to the Pacific coast. There were 171,000 Black Americans in the West in 1940, but 620,000 by 1945. Between the spring of 1942 and 1945 alone, 340,000 Back Americans settled in California. The Los Angeles Times is one of the dominant newspapers in the Los Angeles region. The newspaper

The 1992 Los Angeles Riots 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 paticipatin' in some anarchy. First spot we hit it was my 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 that window drop. Finally we got our own p.a. where

prince. Therefore, I recommend friends and families who are simply looking for a good laugh yet be inspired by the movies theme to grab there popcorn and simply put on Shrek! The first setting of the movie is Shrek's swamp and it starts with a riot of people from the village coming

In a state so vast and diverse like California, you are going to encounter people with very eclectic music taste simply because Californians are exposed to a diverse range of music. In a state that has homed the likes of pop, heavy metal, rock, ska, alternative, hip-hop, and gangster rap, it is very easily for someone to feel at home in this state, or as Josh Kun puts it in “Los Angeles is Singing”, “songs can orient us to where we are, ground us in a sense of home...” (LAtitudes, 182). Kun goes

large group of students who are different in race and ethnicity and are participants and/or indirectly affected by gang violence in L.A. The name Freedom Writers is a name given to her students by which they were inspired by the Freedom Riders activists in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The film is based on the true story of Woodrow Wilson High School in L.A. that has given up on students such as Erin Gruwell’s English students that they are perceived by the school as hopeless students with