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JEALOUSY pure and simple.
Blacks and Hispanics were looking for scape goats for their own failures.
You can't use racism as an excuse all the time. America is tired of this excuse. Coreans are hard working intelligent people who saw a niche in inner cities and took advantage of it.
Why can't blacks and Hispanics do the same???
Funny thing is alot of Coreans provided jobs for blacks and Hispanics and they bite the hand that fed them.
How dumb can you get?
Envy Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 21:42:23 (PDT)

The Blacks went bezerk because the white cops were aquitted for beating Rodney King. In their rage, they targeted Koreans! Why?

Even before the riots, there was a NIGHTLINE episode where Ted Koppell discussed an incident (east coast somewhere) where a Korean shopkeeper allegedly slapped a black lady customer.

The guests on that show was the head of the Korean Grocers Association and the Editor of NYC's oldest Black newspaper.

The Black guy asked the Korean why they opened stores in black neighborhoods. The Korean answered that the rents were low and thats the only place they could afford.

The Black guy asked the Korean why they did not hire blacks to work their stores. The Korean said that they did not hire anyone because they cound not afford it. It was grandma, grandpa, niece, nehhew, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles who managed the store.

The Black guy, frustreated, said that if they got these free loans that the government gave the Koreans, they too could be successful. The Korean wanted to know where the Black guy got the info on the "free loan" since they did not receive such loans and that such loans were a myth.

Ted Koppell then asked the Korean how they got the money. The Korean said they arrived peniless. He worked 3 different jobs and so did all the other adults and while living in cramped quarters to save money, they worked long enough to save and open a business of their own.

Koppell then asked the Black guy why the Black community could not do the same thing. Before the Black guy could answer, the Korean yelled, "I'll tell you why! Those people don't know the value of work and as far as their families are concerned, they don't even have whole families! Who amongst them knows who their fathers are! They have to straignten out the problem of illigitimate births and the breakdown of their families BEFORE they can think about being in business!"....

The black guys said "you know, a black lady was viciously assaulted in a store and don't nobody care. Dis goin be jus like 3 million mile island, e'rbody goin forget" Ted said, "you mean 3 mile island". He said "oh yeah". (end of show)

I found it incredible that an editor of a newspaper would misquote a major environmental disaster in such manner.

After the riots, the Koreans and the Blacks got together in LA and came up with a deal.

The deal was that each Korean store would agree to hire at least 1 black youth and that each Korean church would establish a scholarship to go to a deserving black youth.

The agreement dissolved within 1 year. I never knew the reason for its demise but I can guess. What was the trade off? Seems like the agreement was one-sided. Koreans give, Blacks take. Given the one-sidedness of the agreement as well as the hot-temperedness of the Koreans, the failure of the agreement is not a surprise.

Today, 10 years later, the Koreans are still the "haves" and the Blacks are still the "have nots".

Such a shame.

Neither Black nor Korean Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 13:51:24 (PDT)

With people rehashing this racial crap we will have another race war very soon. Maybe if the Koreans had respected their Black and Hispanic customer base instead of belittling them and having a bad attitude all of the time this would not have happened to the extent it did. Apparently, no one ever told the Koreans and some Whites that they were just guests in that community. The shop owners had to learn the hard way. The good thing is after the riots the Koreans and others seem to have a much more humble and courteous attitude to their customer base. That's the way it should be. Too bad they did not have this before the riots. Has anyone here ever actually been to South Central, I seriously doubt it.
Going to loot a pack of Ho-Ho's from chinalova next time Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 11:24:36 (PDT)

Has anyone else been reading the LA Times pieces on the 10th anniversary of the LA Riots/Uprising/Rebellion? As part of their coverage, the LA Times conducted a number of polls of the LA populace regarding their feelings on race relations, problems, improvements and such. I found the following statement to be a bit surprising:

"Today, the sense that progress has been made cuts across all three major racial groups and registers throughout the city: 74% of whites, 70% of blacks . . . and 60% of Latinos reported progress."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-042902poll.story

Umm. . . Asians aren't a major racial group in LA? So I checked out some of the L.A. Times other polls.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-042902poll-470pa2an.story

This article, reviewing poll data, notes that African Americans make up 11% of the LA population, and Asians are 10%. The article goes no to say:
"Asians were interviewed as part of the entire sample, but there were not enough to break out as a separate subgroup."

Now, I'm no expert in demographics and/or statistics, but does it strike anyone else as strange that the 11% of African Americans are large enough to be considered a major racial group and polled at statistically reliable size? But the 10% of Asians are "not enough to break out as a separate subgroup," or count as a major racial group in LA??

I suppose that it takes a large enough group of respondents to create a statistically reliable polling sample, and thus if the L.A. Times didn't reach enough Asians then the data would be meaningless. But given that 10% of the population is Asian, it makes me think that a newspaper should have some obligation to try and reach more Asian people, especially in a poll on race relations, rather than just writing off the group. What is even more curious to me is that one of the articles notes:
"The entire sample was weighted slightly to conform with census figures for sex, race, age, education and area of city." Which tells me that the numbers are already "massaged." So would it really have been that difficult to conduct a few more phone interviews and engage in a little more sample weighting to conform the numbers?

Could someone with some more knowledge about polling, and statistics explain this to me? I'm confused. I hate being a conspiracy theorist but it smells fishy.

Man of Lha-sa(mancha) Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 08:24:47 (PDT)

Why is there so much hatred from black against Asians? Are they jealous that Asian businesses are successful? I think that the riots were just an excuse for a lot of people to fight, burn things down, and steal. Yes the police should have done a better job, but the real culprits are the ones that perpetrated these crimes- the blacks. I for one would never live in LA.
my 2 cents Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 07:59:49 (PDT)

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