What happened in Los Angeles in April of 1992 was neither a race riot nor a class rebellion. Rather, this monumental upheaval was multi-racial, trans-class, and largely male display of justified social rage. For all its ugly, xenophobic resentment, its air of adolescent carnival, and its downright barbaric behavior, it signified the sense of powerlessness in American society… . What we witnessed in Los Angeles was the consequence of a lethal linkage of economic decline, cultural decay, and political lethargy in American life. Race was the visible catalyst, not the underlying cause.

Cornel West, from the introduction to Race Matters

(via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity-deacti)

  1. areyouuexperienced reblogged this from thenoobyorker
  2. theclassroomstarter reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  3. myblack-is-beautiful reblogged this from blackmanonthemoon
  4. goodjua reblogged this from stopthinkmove
  5. kdorvilier reblogged this from blackmanonthemoon
  6. swimmingsimians reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  7. anthraxenchiladas reblogged this from thenoobyorker
  8. stopthinkmove reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  9. mesooncome reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  10. pinkhijabi reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  11. littlediscretions reblogged this from feedmekanyeandbows
  12. feedmekanyeandbows reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  13. 2chainged reblogged this from theeducatedfieldnegro
  14. theeducatedfieldnegro reblogged this from halfcentonline
  15. lightinwinter reblogged this from thenoobyorker
  16. thatfizzsound reblogged this from thenoobyorker