Rodney King Riot Sparknotes

Twilight provides very little information about the effect after the riots. But Twilight Los Angeles 1992 is a useful tool or resource to understand the origins and experience of the Rodney King Riots in collaboration with historic knowledge and text. It effectively informs the reader of the two points in the previous sentence by enlightening the the audience on the social aspects surrounding the riot by using the personal stories of people in the community before, during, and after the riots. Before the riots there were multiple issues in the LA Community. The was a tremendous amount of racial tension between citizens, merchants and law enforcement. Much of this hatred sown into the hearts of the people at a young age and reinforced as an adult. A common theme that occurs in the beginning of the book is “Enemy”. Many characters have a mind set of them versus us. From here on we shall refer to the them vs us mindset as the “enemy complex”. If one

This seems pretty obvious because of the people and places that were targeted in the play. Kattie Miller describes her view of the things that happened during the riots. She talks about the Korean store that were looted during the riots. Her reasoning behind it is due to the disrespect of the Korean store owners toward their customers. Although that may be true the Harlins incidents surely intensified such feelings of wrong doing. Shelby Coffey and his wife were victimized during the riots. His home was vandalized by rioters. He and Ms.Shelby were targeted because of their race and financial status. With out this understanding it would seem as if the riots were random act of discord in LA. Instead this is a reaction to a long history of resentment between races. This is similar to a lit stick of dynamite, if the flame is not put out before the end of the wick, the dynamite is bound to