The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Star Parker: Lessons Unlearned From the ‘92 LA Riots
- Rebecca Hagelin: Killing Black Babies
- Walter Williams: Environmentalists Are Dead Wrong
- Jonah Goldberg: Immigration the Common Thread Between French, American Elections
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Opinion in Brief
Star Parker: “This weekend marks 100 days of the Trump administration. This milestone also coincides with a very important anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, April 29, 1992, riots exploded in Los Angeles after four policemen were acquitted after being charged with the violent beating of Rodney King, caught on video for the entire nation to see. According to The Los Angeles Times, 63 lives were lost in the riots, with the estimated total economic cost pegged at $1 billion, with $735 million in property damage and 1,550 buildings destroyed or damaged. But this is more than a fact of national history for me. It is personal history. I was there. … It could not have been clearer to me back in 1992 that the flailing violence that destroyed Los Angeles would lead nowhere for blacks. It is equally clear to me today that the attitude among blacks that their futures lie with the responsibility and money of others will continue to lead nowhere. Despite a complicated and hard history, blacks need to trash the cynicism they harbor against this great nation, founded on the principles of freedom — a cynicism for which they are paying the greatest price. Only by embracing the principles of freedom and self-government can black Americans truly define a new path and participate in the American dream.”