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Maxine Waters: L.A. Riots Were an ‘Insurrection,’ ‘Defining Moment’ in Black Resistance
freebeacon.com ^ | 4/27/17 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 04/28/2017 12:01:42 PM PDT by ColdOne

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) spoke to the Huffington Post on Thursday and fondly remembered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, insisting they were actually an "insurrection."

More than 50 people were killed during the riots, with thousands more injured and over $1 billion in property damage. But Waters told the Huffington Post that the L.A. riots were "a milestone in the history of black people demanding justice."

"These were people who had been basically forgotten," Waters said. "And because of Rodney King's beating and the current emotion that was stirring in that, it was like people were saying, ‘We're here. You can't do this to us. Look what you're doing, look how you've been.'"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: madmax; maxinewaters; maxinewaterscorrupt; tarpmaxinewaters
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I wonder what her tax records look like? She and her husband made a killing via tarp and that bank.
1 posted on 04/28/2017 12:01:42 PM PDT by ColdOne
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Yeah, she used the same term when the riots were going on. This just reminds me how long that fossil has been fouling up Congress.


2 posted on 04/28/2017 12:03:46 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: ColdOne

Maybe we can’t just get along.

At least as long as people are believing lies.


3 posted on 04/28/2017 12:04:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Me and a lot of Americans: L.A. Riots Were an ‘Insurrection,’ ‘Defining Moment’ in Black Dysfunction
4 posted on 04/28/2017 12:04:29 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: ColdOne

Tell that to the Koreans in downtown LA. They saw it differently.


5 posted on 04/28/2017 12:04:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ColdOne

Still trying to get the old magic of the 60’s back.

When you’ve turned your back on God you got to find meaning in your life by other means.


6 posted on 04/28/2017 12:05:34 PM PDT by x1stcav (White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
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Yeah, whatever, they sure as hell ran like cowards when the F’n Marines showed up, didn’t they...Damn right.

I only wish they had stood their ground and fought on...I celebrated that day when the Marines arrived on the scene and took control of the situation.


7 posted on 04/28/2017 12:05:36 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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This wasn’t a mass protest. This was a destroying and looting rampage.


8 posted on 04/28/2017 12:06:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PGR88

Tell that to Reginald Denny.


9 posted on 04/28/2017 12:08:08 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: x1stcav

That goes for a lot of people, not just black people.

The happiest, most successful black people I have seen are the ones who want to do deals that everybody involved is happy with. Not act like a troop of mad monkeys.


10 posted on 04/28/2017 12:08:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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And Jeff Vink.


11 posted on 04/28/2017 12:09:14 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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I remember watching it on TV. One scene was in a auto-parts store parking lot. A car drove up, 4 people ran inside the store and brought out tires with rims.....

They jacked up the car and the tires did not fit, so they ran back inside and got 4 more that did fit.

I remember asking my mom why isn’t anybody stopping them? Shooting at firemen, it was awful.


12 posted on 04/28/2017 12:12:26 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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This sociali... um... um... liberal wants to get to communism through their racist manipulation of Americans, who happen also to be black, into violent insurrection. Vile.


13 posted on 04/28/2017 12:13:48 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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“L.A.’s Korean-American community faced the brunt of the “insurrection” as a favorite target of the “rebels.”

Funny thing, the Korean shopkeepers got up on their roofs with rifles and shot a bunch of the MFers. One of my cousins was in the CA National Guard at the time and he manned a machine gun at one intersection. That’s how bad the “insurrection” was. Waters brain is a lonely place, just one brain cell frantically looking for another.


14 posted on 04/28/2017 12:13:53 PM PDT by vette6387
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Maxine, you ignorant slut.

Reginald Denny vehemently disagrees the LA riots were about “black people demanding justice.”

Bitch.


15 posted on 04/28/2017 12:14:16 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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This demented old sow equates a good ol’ ghetto riot and looting spree with “demonstrating for minority rights”. The Koreans with the rifles, shooting looters, had the right idea. Put this four legged mental case out front and center. Maybe someone will put her out of our misery. She just spouts hateful racist libtard nonsense like a busted Chatty Cathy doll.


16 posted on 04/28/2017 12:19:09 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Guess they saw it different than Maxine
17 posted on 04/28/2017 12:20:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Yep, you don’t mess with Koreans. Cops won’t come to help? OK, then, the Koreans will arm themselves and shoot at anything that moves. That’s one way to keep looters at bay!


18 posted on 04/28/2017 12:20:11 PM PDT by lbtbell
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I’ve asked that many times. I would think that she would have the good sense to keep her big trap shut....(I think I just undermined my own statement there. She has no sense). I hope Sessions will revisit this.


19 posted on 04/28/2017 12:20:38 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: ScottinVA

According to my cousin who, lost a business in a the riots, the main cause were the blacks were accusing the Koreans of getting extra guberment help. When the fact was the Koreans were all working and pooling their money to start businesses to get ahead.


20 posted on 04/28/2017 12:21:01 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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