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I was a student at Mt. SAC, a month away from graduating. In the early evening, I was with a friend at Denny’s at Nogales & Gale Ave., witnessing the events unfold in the news. I wondered if it would reach us and I had a little bit of fear.

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During that LA Riot, I was home watching the news about the LA Riot.

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During that LA Riot, I was home watching the news about the LA Riot.

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I was a college student and I was waiting tables at an Irish bar in Maryland. We had a lot of customers who were secret service agents. The news of the riot was shown on our big screen- I was very upset but couldn’t really talk to anyone at my work about it. One of the agents said something like he was glad “they” were burning it all down- like it would be better without.

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… but I want to share what I know through the stories of my father-in-law and mother-in-law who are immigrants from Mexico and who settled in East LA back in the 80s. They were, at the time, shop owners at an indoor remate (flea market) in Los Angeles. They tell of how the news broke of the riots and they became fearful for their livelihoods, as the flea market provided for their growing family. Funny enough, my partner (their son) was born two days before the riots on April 27, 1992. So they were worried for their future but I often think about how the media played such a twisted role in pinning communities against each other because very quickly, the “sides” emerge… shop owners vs “looters”, Black folks vs. Koreans, etc. We lose sight of who is hurting most acutely, who gets caught in the cross fire, and who is perpetuating a system of harm, violence, death. Thank you for this film, helping us to interrogate systems of harm upheld by racism and police brutality.

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STUBER, M. L, K. O NADER, and R. S PYNOOS. “The Violence of Despair : Consultation to a HeadStart Program Following the Los Angeles Uprising of 1992.” Community mental health journal33.3 (1997): 235–241.

https://caccl-antonio.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CACCL_ANTONIO/1tdvr42/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_79098607

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Policing Los Angeles Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

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Policing Los Angeles Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD

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Felker-Kantor, Max. Policing Los Angeles Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Ebook.

https://login.mtsac.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mtsac/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=5525671#

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I knew a little bit about the LA riots but this perspective totally opened my eyes. This story enhanced knowledge I already knew, and this perspective allowed that to happen

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When they decided to burn the store.

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The love and gratitude poured into each other- the fierce hug and embrace, like brother and sister.

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I found the scene where the brother finally decided to let the store go particularly moving because he was really stuck on it fr but once he let that go mentally he was ready to move on fully and that’s what they needed. I also found the last scene where kamila was dancing in front of the store moving because that was really where she loved to be at fr and that’s where her spirit stayed I found that beautiful 

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I found the scene where the brother finally decided to let the store go particularly moving because he was really stuck on it fr but once he let that go mentally he was ready to move on fully and that’s what they needed. I also found the last scene where kamila was dancing in front of the store moving because that was really where she loved to be at fr and that’s where her spirit stayed I found that beautiful 

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What should we blame Kamilla’s death on? It’s not an unfortunate tragedy, kids can’t survive in such environment.

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Gifted shoes and Burning the shoe store

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Performance and Activism : Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

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Performance and Activism : Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

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Afary, Kamran. Performance and Activism : Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992. 1st ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. Print. Available with Mt. SAC sign-on https://login.mtsac.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mtsac/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=466672#

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Koreatown, Los Angeles : Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles : Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream.

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Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee. Koreatown, Los Angeles : Immigration, Race, and the “American Dream.”Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022. Print.

Available at Mt. San Antonio College Library, General Collection, 979.494 L5101k

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Opening our selves up to have difficult conversations in order to push through whatever trauma maybe blocking the healing process.

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How do we teach others/ourselves to care less about property, material things, and the “American Dream” and more about people and humanity?

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ETHS 1 - Introduction to Ethnic Studies

AABS 1 - Introduction to Black Studies

APIS 1 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

HIST 9 - Asian American and Pacific Islander History

LCAS 1 - Introduction to Chicanx Studies

SOC 2 - Contemporary Social Problems

SOC 20 - Introduction to Race & Ethnicity

SOC 36 - Pacific Islands' and Asian American Communities

SOC 110 - Introduction to Social Justice