15 years later…
It’s the anniversary of the riots that followed the verdit in the Rodney King beating, really bad in LA, but also events in ATL, Fresno, Dallas, NYC and other cities that seem to already have been overshadowed. What’s changed for Black America? Other documented beatings and aquitals of police; not to mention Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, the propincity for opportunistic looting, and the fact that many in that city are STILL waiting on aid would seem to say: not much. Well, no one has seen tanks in the streets of South Central for a while.
But perhaps things are better for African American women now. Two black Americans have served as Secretary of State for an outlandish bridge burning administration, the current an intelligent and proud woman. And you can’t say “nappy headed ho’s” on the radio…
