Rodney King

hi,

An interesting little article here about Rodney King (yes, THAT Rodney King). At one point the author (Rory Carroll) writes that

“LA, to an extent, has also been redeemed. Racial tensions have ebbed, crime has tumbled, the police have reformed and there is a growing black middle class. It would be nice to leave it there. But the city, like King, is ambivalent, full of light and shade. Poverty and unemployment still plague a black underclass. Inequalities are widening, not narrowing. Parts of south central LA remain covered in rubble and weeds from the riots”.

King’s life since his encounter with LAPD is a mixture of “light and shade” too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/01/rodney-king-learn-to-forgive

 

All in all a thought-provoking article.

 

Steve