Los Angeles Riots

Los Angeles Riots

Interview of Mother

DON DELA CRUZ~~~~~~~~~~~INTERVIEWED: MOTHER

1) I was living in Los Angeles at the time, in the same home we live in today, in Hollywood. 

2) I remember that I was 9 months pregnant with your older sister when it was happening, and many bizarre moments had occurred when I was around town such as being in the middle of a drive-by shooting.

3) The news and media made the riots sound terrifying and very violent, and focused on the colored people.

4) I knew a local Filipino store that had been looted during the riots and had much of their merchandise and money taken and/or destroyed.

5) Civil Rights should not enlighten the idea of riots because it only causes more problems and death than it first started off with (racism and violence towards colored people)

6) It is hard to believe that all of it happened due to the incident of Rodney King. It was a good thing that people became passionate about their fellow peers, but it should not have reached to violence, theft, and everything else that the colored people are blamed for in the first place (stereotypes, racism, prejudice beliefs).

7) It was just chaos within the Los Angeles parameter. There was loot, theft, assault, murder, and basically a state of emergency in Los Angeles all under the belief to rebel against society. It goes back to the riots of the Civil Rights Movement or even fast forward to the riots in Ferguson. Each lack the ability to cope with an issue head on and without physical harm because we were brought up into a society that shapes our belief to passionately and aggressively fight for our rights.

8) I would like to share that it is completely insane that people will prove their superiors right when they are provoked into violence and inhumane acts due to not being able to control our emotions and adrenaline. Society has produced generations of youth that cannot deal with their own problems and must act out onto other issues without control. 

 And to believe that all this carnage and despair all happened in our city, a place we call "home"