That we have any kinds of things that we focus on particularly in the History Department which is of course where my heart is in my mind is as well. Its been a wonderful time here though. Just seeing the change in of it. Host so you came the year before the l. A. Riots . Guest i did. It was quite a shock to move from texas where i was, having been born and raised in virginia and coming here and being part of that, seeing it firsthand. Host have you written about that . Guest yes, i have. I was so impacted by those rights i wrote a book called the l. A. Riots of 1992. I wrote a book that was published in Oxford University press in 2013. Host who was Latasha Harland . Guest a 15yearold girl who walked into a liquor market, a Grocery Store in march, 1991 close to her home in southcentral los angeles and she picked up a bottle of orange juice the cost 1. 78 nine. She put in a backpack and went to the counter with two dollars a head. The shopkeeper felt she was trying to steal the juice. A
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tonight, we must tell our children one more time stay cool. be strong. that for after african-american children and adults freedom is not yet a reality in the united states. [ applause ] a lesser known contributing factor to the racial tension in los angeles in 1992 happened the same month as the rodney king beating. that was the shooting death of latasha harland. a 15-year-old african-american girl was shot in the back of the head at the store in a dispute over a bottle of orange juice. the store owner s was convicted of manslaughter but receive only probation, community service and a $500 fine prompting outrage in the los angeles black community. joining me now, three who played
is that darryl gates and the police with drew from our communities, kind of left the community helpless, if you will, and just enraged. and i think that one of the things that we recognize there have been so many over the years, so many killings, the rodney king thing that obviously we saw. for people to be just given no justice after they beat this man half to death, the community was just tired of it and couldn t do anything. latasha harland, while we can t villainize all of the koreans and we shouldn t. the reality is we saw a young girl s head blown off because she was shopping and got an orange juice, because somebody miscalculated what she was doing in the store. the problem with korean-americans, they re setting up businesses, good for them. but they re not hiring people from the community. and they re being disrespectful to black people in the community. all of these things create a