LA riots

The LA gang truce and uprising of 1992 - Davey D & Twilight Bey

Submitted by R Totale on Jul 9 2020 15:46

An interview with Twilight Bey, a former gang member involved in negotiating the truce, on the LA gang truce and uprising of 1992. This interview was first conducted on the 10-year anniversary of the uprising in April 2002, and was archived at indybay.org.

“No Humans Involved”: An Open Letter to my Colleagues

A letter by Sylvia Wynter written in response to the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

No justice no peace: an eyewitness account of the LA riots

Submitted by Steven. on Apr 6 2015 18:23

An anonymous eyewitness account of the riots which swept Los Angeles in the wake of the acquittal of the police who murdered Rodney King.

Smoke and ash: a Latino writer looks back at the 1992 Los Angeles uprising - Luis J. Rodriguez

An article by Luis J. Rodriguez about Latino participation, and reasons for this, in the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Three days that shook the new world order

A lengthy essay, first published in Race Traitor, and one of the more intelligent pieces written on the 1992 LA riots.

No we can’t all just get along: hip hop, gang unity and the LA rebellion

Excerpts focusing on the lead-up and aftermath of the LA riots from Jeff Changs Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation,

From passive to active spectacle: afterimages of the LA riots

Oakland based Research & Destroy write about the Los Angeles riots and spectacle.

20 Years Later: the Los Angeles riots, hip-hop, rage and Trayvon Martin

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Apr 30 2012 07:52

A post about the Los Angeles riots, hip-hop and race in America.

Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun

In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who according to him have been economically marginalized by capitalism but also socially integrated by the spectacle of power and violence, and compares their social dislocation and nihilism with Hannah Arendt's characterization of the preconditions for the mass psychology of totalitarianism ("isolation and the absence of normal social relations").