Criminal Justice System the cases will show if we do and lets see what happens. Host a history professor at ucla former chair of the history department. Where were you . March 1991 i had just moved to a los angeles i had just begun and as an assistant professor in january. I was living in faculty housing trying to figure out what l. A. Was all about and was coming from austin, the deep south and raised in virginia, the upper south to school in the northeast i wanted to know what the west was about the most racially diverse city in the world at the time possibly. I turn on my television the day after rodney king was beaten and i saw the videotape then two weeks later i see Latasha Harlins and i thought what have i done to come here . [laughter] when i left texas and came to california i expected something very different so these captured my imagination and immediately as a scholar of the africanamerican tradition. Host when did you start writing the book . Mr. D interview in 1993 with f
Sentence was pronounced one month before Latasha Harlins casein they would say be be the dog was formed to in the order was sent to jail for 30 days but Latasha Harlins was shot in the back of the head and the person did not receive anything at all the really resonated with the community so how could it dog be kicked and served jail time but a black girl could be killed and the person who killed her found guilty in not serving in the jail time and all . People also remember the owner because just recently back in august there was a rumor she had another Convenience Store in South Central and the community was outraged 17 adolf fliers of a child killer they went to boycott but as it turned out this woman was korea and and did own a store but does not the owner but just the idea she was back in the community had people ready to go to protest in boycott. Host teeeight nine is there a conflict or issue between Africanamerican Community and korean grocers . Guest theyre intent there was but
Which is not the other side which unfortunately is where we are right now. Host a super pac has existed since 2013 the existing solely to support Hillary Clinton and what may or may not be a run for the United States. It has been awhile but what will occur operation lookalike . Guest there will be a lot of money flowing not just to that won super pac but there are 20. You cannot control it right now. They want to control little but it will be all over the place. I think itll be a 78 milliondollar election almost doubling this year and will be that out of control. The difference between the tax in the coordinated efforts is you dont know what will happen. You could spend places you dont want to our buddy, and from people you dont want to be associated with that they will because of the super pac. It is a lot of money. Because the money is so big in a president ial campaign the ability to say no to one daughter is okay and the campaign a little cleaner with the Congressional Campaign rea
After the homestead act is enacted all these civil war soldiers moving to kansas. We are the soldiers state long before we are the son of former state because of the civil war veterans coming west. You cannot overstate the role of kansas. Host the book is called the contested murder of Latasha Harlins justice, gender, and the origins of the la riots published by Oxford University press. The author is ucla history professor stevenson. Who was latasha . An africanamerican girl 17 at the time of her death living with her grandmother and her aunt and cousins and a freshman in high school and was killed 1991 in South Central inside the Empire Market. By the shopkeeper. Host why was she killed . Guest there was the struggle over a bottle of orange juice that cost 1. 79. Latasha harlins enter the store you can see this on the video camera. She entered at 9 30 a. M. And goes to the refrigerated case to picks up a bottle of orange juice and places it in her backpack she walks to the counter and
Your Credit Rating goes dowfnlt the tragedy of this is that were not only going to add to the deficit and debt of this country by playing this brinksmanship, we are going to hurt every american, every american who relies on credit, whether it is a mortgage, whether it is car loan, a student loan. Weve now linke link student loo this problem. Think about the dollars and think about whats happening to the American People when we dont do the things that we need to do. We shut down government but wont let people go to work, serve the public, but then say, oh, dont worry, were going to pay you. And then we cost by shutting down this government we have cost millions and millions a and millions and billions of dollars, adding to the deficit and debt. Dollars that we didnt have to spend. And now were going to play this brinksmanship in our debt limb. Debt limit. Were going to shake up not only the american markets, were going it add to the interest costs not only of the American People and of